Plextor 12/10/32a - no burn

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I've had a long term problem with my Plextor 12/10/32a and X.
It has never been consistent burning.
Sometimes I'll get thru a CDRW burn, NP, other time not. Very seldom do I get thru a CDR burn. Different brands of blanks doesn't seem to make a diff. Works fine on OS 9 partition.
I've tried a FW DVD107 and it worked fine. In spite of the fact that ASP says it's supported, I suspect the driver isn't quite there.

Any ideas or suggestions are welcome, other them smarty comments.

G3/450M, built in video/Panther.3.2
 
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ya know, I've been a big fan of xlr8 since the beginning and I've look over the database for this problem many times. But I decided yesterday to do a different sort. Instead of just looking at Panther, I also looked at plain vanilla X.
There was a post there from someone with the same set up, more or less.
There was nothing specific, but for some reason, I started to think about the possibility that maybe which ATA buss the CDRW was on might make a diff.
So I flipped the ribbons on the 2 busses. Last night I burned 2 CDRs w/NP, just like the good old OS 9 days. Today I tried to burn a CDRW doc back-up and that failed miserably, where it usually worked before. But I have a feeling this may be a different problem.
Or it may be that since I just flipped the ribbons, the boot drive is now on ATA1.
The CDRW is master on ATA0 with the OEM 4G that is just files.
In any case, I think I'm closing in on the best situ for a beige running Panther.
Thanks
 
I flipped drives. Now my boot drive is master on ATA0 and the CDRW slave. The OEM 4G for files is on ATA1 by itself.

Toast no longer works for even back-ups, but so far iTunes and iBurn seem to be doing the job. Nutty!
 
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