Problems Burning With Panasonic LF-D521

double434 wrote on 5/26/2003, 1:28 PM

I am having massive issues using DVD Architect with this drive. First, it was giving lots of error messages, but after closing and restarting the application a few times, it would eventually burn successfully. Then, the program stopped burning at all and just continued to give error messages such as "the data in the track is not compatible with the drive" or "CDB opton selected is not compatible with this device." So, I uninstalled and reinstalled not only DVD Architect, but also the drive itself in an attempt to correct his problem.

But now, DVD Architect doesn't even recognize the drive.

I've tried toggling the "skip drive databases" option under Options>Preferences>General, but that doesn't work. I've uninstalled and reinstalled DVD Architect several times and that doesn't work. I've uninstalled and reinstalled and updated the drivers for the Panasonic drive, but that doesn't work. Does anyone have any idea why DVD Architect is having so many issues with this drive?

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double434 wrote on 5/26/2003, 1:52 PM

Okay, I just tried something that worked, but this is a really weird, convoluted work around:

1. Uninstall the Panasonic DVD-RAM Driver.
2. Start Up DVD Architect (please note that I am using version 1.0b)
3. Try to Burn your project - viola! the drive is found, BUT you receive an error when you try to do the burn - data in track not compatible, blah, blah, blah.
4. Shut down DVD Architect.
5. Launch My DVD 3.5
6. After successfully opening My DVD 3.5 and letting it run for a couple of seconds, shut it down.
7. Re-launch DVD Architect
8. Try to burn your project again - eureeka! it works.

I'm not sure why this works, but it does. Now, I'm going to have to reinstall the DVD-Ram driver again so that I can view my Ram disks and then uninstall it when I want to burn. This is an insane process, but at least it works. Anyone have any ideas why this works or a way to simplify the process?

*Oh yeah, there was a point where DVD Architect was the ONLY DVD burning software program on my computer, but that didn't work. For some reason it seems to need My DVD 3.5 in order to burn. Weird.