Sony Coaster Making Machine - SFMMCX Errors!!!

pixelpoint wrote on 11/24/2003, 7:26 PM
I had DVD Archetect version 1.0c, Build 203. I began burning DVD projects onto TDK DVD-R media. All was just fine for the first 10 or so disks I burned. All of a sudden, it will only produce coasters.

I looked at the info here on the forum, and I downloaded and installed version 1.0d, Build 230 - the latest version as of this date. According to the web forums here, the '1.0c' fixed this problem, and I've gone a step further with the '1.0d' release. I installed and rebooted my computer - and tried again - ANOTHER coaster.

I am using the NEC 1300A burner drive, so I checked at NEC and they had upgraded the drive's firmware from the 1.05 version it shipped with to 1.06, and then 1.08. I flashed the drive with the newest firmware version 1.08 - rebooted and reloaded - ANOTHER coaster.

So I tried different media - I purchased Imation CD-R media and tried again - THE SAME PROBLEM.

I set up the project and prepare the disk, just fine. It burns the "lead in" just fine and shows 4% completion. Then it goes to "burning tracks" - no progress is shown in the bottom progress meter - the "ETA" time ticks up to about 16 minutes, then counts down. Between 10 and 11 minutes left - EVERY TIME - the computer dings, spits out the disk, then gives the error (shown below).

When the coaster is ejected, I can see data tracks burned over about 1/3 of the disks surface. I can throw it in my set-top DVD player and it comes up just fine - but after playing to about 2 minutes into the piece, the screen goes all garbled and jumps back to the DVD menu. This thing IS burning disks - there is obviously some bug in the SF software causing this. What gives??

I am running Windows 2000 Professional, 1.7Ghz processor, and 512MB ram - a perfectly suitable machine, so this is not an "under power" issue, if it makes a difference.

I have tried with CD-RW media and it burns just fine. I have now tried two brands of CD-R media and every other fix I can think of. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS SOFTWARE?????????

Help help help. Somebody please help.

Here is the error I am getting:

'SFMMCX'-(17)
'atapi'-(1)
-'_NEC DVD_RW ND-1300A 1.08'-(0)
Module sfmmcx.cpp Line 1682
An illegal request was received.
The disc can't be written. It is an incompatible format.

Status: 00020202
Command: 2a 00 00 00 11 40 00 00 20 00
Sense: 05 30 05
Info: 00 00 00 00
Specific: 00 00 00
Extra: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00


Comments

cheroxy wrote on 11/24/2003, 7:37 PM
Have you tried to burn with a different software to cd-r so that you can compare?
johnmeyer wrote on 11/24/2003, 9:00 PM
Have you tried the Preview function in DVDA? Can you play all portions of the DVD? Try this to make sure that the VOB files have been prepared correctly.

You might also want to do a scandisk to see if any of the prepared files are corrupt.
kameronj wrote on 11/24/2003, 9:09 PM
First of all....why are you trying to burn a DVD project to a CD?

That's red flad number one.

Red flag number two is - unless the media has changed or I just don't know about it - there is no such media as a CD -r (or for that fact a CD +r). But then again, it just goes back to red flag number one and you trying to burn a DVD project on a CD.

Third flag....if the software was burning just fine for the first 10 discs or so - then it's not the software. So to answer your blaring question - there is nothing the matter with the software. Well....as of disc 10 or so, that is.

So we have to go back to the artist blaming the canvas.

What happened 'all of a sudden' after disc 10, or so, that changed? I'm sure, well...pretty positive, that is, that the software in question didn't decide to just up and change - or refuse to do what it was told. The only software that I know that did that was HAL.

But anyone who ever watched 2010 (The Year We Make Contact) knows that HAL wasn't messing up 'all of a sudden'. He was given conflicting orders and was doing his best to do what he was told to do. But Dave didn't know that at the time. Heck...we had to wait a long time to figure that out.

Oh sure, as far as the movie was concerned it was only 9 years...but in real life it was a heck of a lot longer. But even so - 9 years to find out that HAL wasn't going crazy and was only doing the best he could do under the circumstances was too long to wait.

But I digress.

So now you have a coaster maker that you have updated your system and changed the software a number of times and are still ending up making bad CDs although the intent is to make DVDs (go back to red flag number one).

I'm sure something else happened 'all of a sudden'. I'm sure it wasn't the software just pulling a HAL on ya. But be that as it may...do what any rational human being would do to a system that is acting funky!!

First make it sing "Daisy" - and uninstall the aplication - and start over.

And you may want to get a few DVD disc. That may help you burn DVD projects a bit better.
jetdv wrote on 11/25/2003, 6:39 AM
Try removing any DLA software or anything from Record Now. They have been known to interfere with DVDA.
readw wrote on 11/25/2003, 5:23 PM
Because your drive is not supported by Sony, you won't get any support from them, so your choice is buy a DVDA supported drive if you can still buy one.

That is in essence the response when I tried to get support from them on my Sony unsupported Pioneer A06 drive.

The supported drive list is very old and no current model DVD burners are supported by Sony, I suspect that DVDA has some major problems given the limited number of drives that are supported by them,

Below is a link to a list of supported drives.



http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/Products/showproduct.asp?PID=810&FeatureID=6989&FeatureTL=6967
LeeV wrote on 11/25/2003, 6:20 PM
Do you prepare and burn or just burn the same vob files?
wobblyboy wrote on 11/25/2003, 7:01 PM
I don't think your problem is with DVDA. More likely with firmware for your burner, or with your burner. I have used DVDA with both Pioneer burner and TDK burner and have yet to create a coaster. My TEK burner is burning the cheap disks I purchased from Americal.com and burning at 4X.
NicNow wrote on 2/13/2004, 9:18 AM
I to get the error 'SFMMCX'-(17)
'atapi'-(3)
-'PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-105 1.00'-(0)
Module sfmmcx.cpp Line 1648
An illegal request was received.
Unknown Additional Sense 21 02

Status: 00020202
Command: 2a 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 20 00
Sense: 05 21 02
Info: 00 00 00 00
Specific: 00 00 00
Extra: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00


I am running a pionee. I used to be able to get it to burn only after a reboot but now that does not seem to help.
nolonemo wrote on 2/13/2004, 9:41 AM
Kameronj -- poster said he was burning TDK DVD-Rs. Doh.

What happens if you create the files on disk and burn to DVD with another program (presumably something came bundled with your DVD writer, and there was recently a thread on here about free DVD burning programs available on dvdrhelp.com.

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=250918&Replies=6&Page=1

If that solves the problem you will have added another step, but one of only a few minutes.
pelladon wrote on 2/13/2004, 8:38 PM
Wow, you too??
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'SFMMCX'-(17)
'nvatabus'-(0)
-'PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-105 1.33'-(1)
Module sfmmcx.cpp Line 1682
An illegal request was received.
Unknown Additional Sense 21 02

Status: 00020202
Command: 2a 00 00 04 42 20 00 00 20 00
Sense: 05 21 02
Info: 00 00 00 00
Specific: 00 00 00
Extra: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
------------------------------------------------------------
And THEN, I remembered that I just installed Intervideo's WinDVD 4 (OEM) version. So I uninstalled it, and now DVDA seems to burn ok.

Really, I think this is a bit too much. I understand apps being incompatible, but DVDA seems to have a bad neighbor policy when it comes to third party apps...

Two recommendations:
1. Try to remember if you installed some app between the time you last used DVDA (when it was burning right) and the present. Might want to try to uninstall that app.

2. You might want to try uninstalling DVDA, then reinstalling it.
SonyEPM wrote on 2/16/2004, 6:29 AM
I've said it before but I'll say it again: Some 3rd party burning apps can trash DVDA's ability to burn. I know of no repro case where installing DVDA trashes another app's ability to burn.

pelladon wrote on 2/16/2004, 9:27 AM
But you know what's really wierd?

Previously, when I was running Win98SE, I had Nero, Easy CD5, DVDA and WinDVD4 on my system, without problems.

Now with XP SP1a, DVDA is giving out those error messages. However, it's intermittant, and now, I'm not sure if WinDVD4 was a problem...Could be a XP issue. The error is almost random, no way to predict what would trigger it.

Not wanting to take a chance, I just use Nero to burn, DVDA to prepare.
vitalforces wrote on 2/18/2004, 1:43 PM
Me also. I let Nero burn while I fiddle with ROM, er, DVD-A. Ha.