Installed a new ASUS DRW-1814BLT burner and got it to show up and to lightscribe OK.
But IF i try to burn a Disc, it ALWAYS seems to get an error.
The previous IDE burner had No issues with burning like this.

What could be suddenly causing the error's?
From memory it was an issue with the Buffer or data speed.
Though SATA was faster than IDE ??

Anyone else had similar problems, and found a solution ?
I would be keen to get this solved.

what does the error say?

I will try to burn a disc when i get home at about 5:00pm AEST and post the actual error i am getting.

SATA Rom drives and IDE Rom drives burn at the same speeds, they also transfer at the same max rate at 66mb. SATA Rom drives are a waste of extra money. There is zero performance gain using an SATA Rom drive over an IDE Rom drive.

Cobra is correct and the same goes for hard drives. The SATA interface has a higher 'potential' speed limit but drives haven't come close to approaching the IDE speed limit yet.

that is true I have had problems with sata

sata! had nothing but problems
i think mabye older mother boards dont expect to see a device like a cd burner on them.

my mate got a board 5 years ago with sata one of the first and one of the first with raid. he some how cocked up the instalation of the 1 hard drive and set it to raid 0+1. fast forward to last week he got a sata dvd burner whacked it in and the mobo i think saw the drive and tried to set up the raid. wiped the whole drive 200gb of photos and so on.

this is think was a catalog of errors first being he paid for raid and didnt know what it was. didnt know how to set up the drive. the raid controler was brand new and looked like it was tagged onto the bios.

so leasons to be taken.
learn what you are doing(he though building a pc was like lego?!?!? i blame plug and play for this itsmaking people stupid)
dont pay for stuff you know nothing about
and if its new technology wait till its matured before buying

all text needs typos. There there for the reader to find,to distract them from the total lack of content.
google it! wasnt the answer to the question i asked so dont be dense and give me that repl

Here's the error i got:
Nerovision.exe Application Error

The instruction at "0x00348d9e" referenced memory at "0x015238a0". The memory could not be "read".
Click OK to terminate Program.

Error:
4C86-2017-2045-4771-055X-402C-6A3C-**** (*)

Windows XP 5.1
IA32
WinAspi: -
ahead WinASPI: File 'C:\Program Files\Nero\Nero 7\Core\Wnaspi32.dll': Ver=2.0.1.74, size=164112 bytes, created 2/11/2004 12:54:32 PM

NT-SPTI used
Nero API version: 7.5.13.1
Using interface version: 6.3.1.4
Installed in: C:\Program Files\Nero\Nero 7\Core\
Application: ahead\Nero - Burning Rom
Internal Version: 7, 5, 13, 1

Recorder: <ASUS DRW-1814BLT> Version: 1.13 - HA 1 TA 0 - 7.5.13.1
Adapter driver: <IDE> HA 1
Drive buffer : 2048kB
Bus Type : default (0) -> ATAPI, detected: ?

=== Scsi-Device-Map ===
DiskPeripheral : SAMSUNG SP2014N atapi Port 1 ID 0 DMA: On
DiskPeripheral : Maxtor 6Y080L0 atapi Port 1 ID 1 DMA: On
CdRomPeripheral : ASUS DRW-1814BLT nvatabus Port 3 ID 0 DMA: Off

=== CDRom-Device-Map ===
ASUS DRW-1814BLT D: CDRom0
=======================

AutoRun : 1
Excluded drive IDs:
WriteBufferSize: 83886080 (0) Byte
BUFE : 0
Physical memory : 958MB (981412kB)
Free physical memory: 579MB (593424kB)
Memory in use : 39 %
Uncached PFiles: 0x0
Use Inquiry : 1
Global Bus Type: default (0)
Check supported media : Disabled (0)

19.10.2007
NeroAPI
5:20:38 PM #1 Phase 112 File APIProgress.cpp, Line 282
DVD-Video files reallocation started

5:20:38 PM #2 Phase 114 File APIProgress.cpp, Line 282
DVD-Video files reallocation completed (no file modified)

5:20:38 PM #3 Phase 111 File APIProgress.cpp, Line 282
DVD-Video files sorted

5:20:38 PM #4 Text 0 File SCSIPTICommands.cpp, Line 411
LockMCN - completed sucessfully for IOCTL_STORAGE_MCN_CONTROL

5:20:38 PM #5 Text 0 File AudioCompilationImpl.cpp, Line 838
DRM: StartDrmRecording(RealRec:1, ImageRec:0, Copies:1)
DRM: Beginning burn process.

5:20:38 PM #6 ISO9660GEN -11 File Geniso.cpp, Line 3332
First writeable address = 0 (0x00000000)

5:20:38 PM #7 ISO9660GEN -11 File Geniso.cpp, Line 3332
First writeable address = 0 (0x00000000)

5:20:38 PM #8 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 3467
Turn on Disc-At-Once, using DVD media

5:20:39 PM #9 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 306
Last possible write address on media: 2298495 (510:46.45, 4489MB)
Last address to be written: 2244175 (498:42.25, 4383MB)

5:20:39 PM #10 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 318
Write in overburning mode: NO

5:20:39 PM #11 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 2929
Recorder: ASUS DRW-1814BLT, Media type: DVD-R
Disc Manufacturer: TYG02 -
Disc Application Code: 64, Disc Physical Code: 193

5:20:39 PM #12 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 490
>>> Protocol of DlgWaitCD activities: <<<
=========================================

5:20:39 PM #13 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 792
Setup items (after recorder preparation)
0: TRM_DATA_MODE1 ()
2 indices, index0 (150) not provided
original disc pos #0 + 2244176 (2244176) = #2244176/498:42.26
relocatable, disc pos for caching/writing not required/ required
-> TRM_DATA_MODE1, 2048, config 0, wanted index0 0 blocks, length 2244176 blocks [D: ASUS DRW-1814BLT]
-----

5:20:39 PM #14 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 995
Prepare [D: ASUS DRW-1814BLT] for write in CUE-sheet-DAO
DAO infos:
==========
MCN: ""
TOCType: 0x00; Session Closed, disc fixated
Tracks 1 to 1: Idx 0 Idx 1 Next Trk
1: TRM_DATA_MODE1, 2048/0x00, FilePos 0 0 4596072448, ISRC ""
DAO layout:
===========
___Start_|____Track_|_Idx_|_CtrlAdr_|_____Size_|______NWA_|_RecDep__________
0 | lead-in | 0 | 0x41 | 0 | 0 | 0x00
0 | 1 | 0 | 0x41 | 2244176 | 0 | 0x00
0 | 1 | 1 | 0x41 | 2244176 | 0 | 0x00
2244176 | lead-out | 1 | 0x41 | 0 | 0 | 0x00

5:20:39 PM #15 Text 0 File SCSIPTICommands.cpp, Line 209
SPTILockVolume - completed successfully for FCTL_LOCK_VOLUME

5:20:39 PM #16 Phase 24 File APIProgress.cpp, Line 282
Caching of files started

5:20:39 PM #17 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 4351
Cache writing successful.

5:20:39 PM #18 Phase 25 File APIProgress.cpp, Line 282
Caching of files completed

5:20:39 PM #19 Phase 36 File APIProgress.cpp, Line 282
Burn process started at 4x (5,540 KB/s)

5:20:43 PM #20 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 2712
Verifying disc position of item 0 (relocatable, disc pos, no patch infos, orig at #0): write at #0

5:20:43 PM #21 Text 0 File DVDR.cpp, Line 3092
Recording mode: Sequential Recording Mode

5:20:43 PM #22 Text 0 File DVDR.cpp, Line 3248
Start write address at LBA 0
DVD high compatibility mode: Yes

5:20:43 PM #23 SPTI -1066 File SCSIPassThrough.cpp, Line 179
C

This has been an issue for many people with the ASUS DRW1814BL. Once you use the lightscribe once, it will no longer lightscribe or see CD's, but will still burn DVD's. I've been in the ASUS forum checking it out and have not found a fix yet. Many are saying that it is a sofware conflict. Something to do with Nero 7.
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx...

Toolman