External usb2 cdrw trouble

[Zozzy]

Hi all....

I have an Asus P4B533-E motherboard with an intel pentium 4 2.0ghz processor...using Win98 SE.

I just bought an external usb2.0 cdrw that turns out to be a Benq 2410eu under its make-up.
Win 98 has no trouble acknowledging the cdrw as a reading device.....though its not to be found in the bios... but I can't seem to get it installed as a re-writer... Nero does not recognize it.... CDRWin does...and even writes to it but the results are coffee-mug fodder.

A little notice in the manual says I should tick the DMA field in device manager...but there is not one... I tried de-installing the intel application accelerator... and even reinstalled W98 se ... but no joy.

I have tried everything I can think of... updating the bios, using generic hard disk controllers... but nothing works.

Is there something I'm missing or is my re-writer not even a once-writer won my setup?

Help!
Dave (Zozzy) Thwaites

[mjc]

Ok...first make sure you have the latest version of Nero. For some reason drive manufacturers ship version of Nero that don't recognize the model drive it is shipped with!

Second, when you reinstalled windows was it a fresh install or over top?

Third, IAA (Intel Application Accelerator) removes the DMA check box from the properties tab, but by default enables DMA on the IDE channels. The whole purpose of it is to enable it...it is just Intel's fancy name for the UDMA driver!

Fourth, for some reason Ijust don't trust USB as a means to hook up a writer.

Fifth, try different media with CDRWin.....