Burning on efika

[zyphoid]

figured I'd try the thread here...

Has anyone been able to do burning with efika? if so how and with what?

I have an issue with the drive hanging up the system after inserting a blank cd.

[zyphoid]

@pyrre

I'ma smack you!!! :-D

[zyphoid]

for sure I'm going to get laughed off of the thread with this issue :lol:

[zyphoid]

Yea i figured someone here may have a solution.  the usb keyboard/mouse combo is great true I have mine in the bottom drive but occasionally I do get drops of mostly the mouse, keystroke works then to move the pointer.  I have a logitech  combo.  on the usb, it was the lite on usb super write lightscribe.  it works but does the same stuff the hpdrive did, I can't be the only one attempting this so hopefully there are ideas out the I know Moto has a setup.

[zyphoid]

ok by mounting with usb first then opening frying pan, and then finding the class on poseidon, going to its preference, and playing with some of its settings, and then cueing up my mp3's I am able to then plug the power in without hangup the system, then i go back into poseidon, change the settings back, but when writing, i get an error of track layout failed(-18) disc will not be written to

the drive is mounted and bounded to...well i dunno cant find it now but it's there

drive progress shows 3/4 activity status but that varies. if the mouse drops, unplug and plug in again.  I had to do it three times.
no chang in ram so i guess it's not even trying to do anything

oh @amigadave yep its the same drive I got from them...tigerdirect is good!I got all the efika extras from them

 :-)  :-)

[zyphoid]

anyone else willing to fiddle with this this weekend? I'll give it another shot tonight before I throw in the towel.

[zyphoid]

i burn on a 1200....which is usb1! :crazy:

[zyphoid]

doesn't anyone have a clue on this problems, ideas that i may try?

[zyphoid]

Here's the verdict...
1)read/write error on accessing audio cd's  opens the window vies the audio files as.wav then the requester pops up.  you have to eject the cd, or you end up canceling or retrying forever.

2)reads dvd's sometimes same issues with read/write errors(haven't seeing that since game disk days)

3) with trial and error or multiple tries, mplayer will play a dvd, but dound will be ahead and skip repeat reverb or loop, video is watchable but stutters or drags at times
played long enough the picture will catch the sound, but not good to the ear squeaks.

btw. fab author of mplayer recommends that mplayer wont play dvd well on efika.

4)mp3s play ok- no decoding hang ups

5)couldn't test avi no file on cd( too many to find where it was) but to efika's credit it can play from a usb external drive (i viewed a usb movie from my seagate)

6)burning....just can't get it to happen.

overall it's a nice drive to just sit on your efika, small none overlapping,shinny black, but if you get one, get it for your mac or other,because you wont get much use out of it on efika.  i got it thinking that there was an outdated issue with my hpdvd603e but the lite-on usb lightscribe had similar issues in regards to not reading audio cd's.

one more thing is that you need the power source for the drive usb power isn't enough to power transfer.