CD-R Problem... help me

[Pekka]

Out of the blue my burning softwares started dissing my cd-r. I've burned few cd's today even, then did some surfing on the web and decided to burn some more. I did not change any settings on any devices.
Windows sees my cd-r and claims it works properly. Also BIOS sees it. It works OK if I try to use it for example playing audio cds or just browsing files on cd. It stops working when I try to burn something, it just doesn't find it. I use nero, but I tried cdrwin also, same problem.

It's Plextor 40x/12x/40A PX-W4012A..

I downloaded CDR Info from Plextor site and it gives me the model of my cd-r plus information that says:
Target ID: 0
Host Adapter: 0

I reckon experts can see the problem there.. with the zeros? What do they mean, what should I do? My OS is win98 and motherboard is Epox 8K3A+ audio raid ddr KT333.

It worked just fine, but now it doesn't.

[Urban Ranger]

That's a SCSI device, right?

[Pekka]

UR, Umm might be? It's my secondary IDE now, but it worked just like fine before?

Also, I unchecked the DMA box from properties and booted, then rechecked it and booted, now Target ID is still 0, but Host Adapter is 1, and it's still not working at all. If that matters..

[Pekka]

Ok this is the most info I can get:

Operating system : Windows 98 V4.10.1998
Windows ASPI (wnaspi32.dll) : Adaptec ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, V4.71 (0001)
Roxio ASPI (cdral.dll) : n/a
Ahead ASPI (wnaspi32.dll) : n/a

Host Adapter: 1 SCSI ID: - Maximum # Targets : -
Description : Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo)
Type : Hard disk controllers

Port Driver : ESDI_506.pdr
Provider : Microsoft
Description : ESDI_506 Virtual Device (Version 4.0) (Microsoft Corporation)
Location : C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\iosubsys\ESDI_506.PDR
Version : 4.10.1998
Date : 5-11-1998

ID 0 (G: ) PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W4012A V1.02 (S/N:628326) (7.15.15D)
Read speed: 17-40 X CAV
Jumper Settings: 001
BURN-Proof disabled
Auto Insert Notification: yes
DMA: yes

[Urban Ranger]

Is this the thing?

Acutally this is a special edition product, but that's as close as I can find on the European site. Anyway, it seems that it comes with the software called Plextool. Do you have that? If so, run it to check things out.

[Pekka]

Yeah, I think that's it..
I'll run Plextool now..

[Pekka]

Well Plextools had only some general information, I still don't know what the problem is.. no errors..

[Urban Ranger]

Have you just moved it to the secondary IDE controller? If so, check the slave/master jumper. Make sure it is set to master.

[Pekka]

No, I haven't.. and it is master..

[Urban Ranger]

Okay, you can use Plextools to burn CD-Rs. Try to see if that works.

[Pekka]

Ok it worked, BUT it created ISO image first.. I noticed nero will let me burn also images.. but it's still not working 100% like it's supposed to be working..

[Urban Ranger]

So you are burning audio CDs?

[Pekka]

And now nero just let me burn cd without creating image.. I don't get it. THis is what I wanted but.. and it still won't see my cd-r.. it sees my dvd.. it didn't let me do this earlier, I haven't changed any of my settings.
Weird.. well it is now functioning like I need to work, but I just don't understand this at all.

[Pekka]

Nope, I was burning .avis.. they worked fine. I don't have any problems now as nero started working with me again, but it still amazes me how it could work even now. Oh well..

thanks for helping me out.

[Urban Ranger]

No sweat.

Windows is like voodoo. I swear that is true.