Have you checked the jumpers on the back of the drives to make sure that one is set to master and the other set to slave. I would suggest that the DVD-ROM be set to Master and the Burner be set to Slave.

Jeremy

My Mitsumi CR-48X5TE (oem piece of garbage) worked for 2.5 years, but now it gives me a power calibration error about half the time. I tried disabling Norton antivirus, but that didn't help> It also doesn't seem to matter waht brand of CR-RW I use. I think it is either the drive or the software, because the discs in question burn ok on the laptop.

I have the same error message, I tried diffrent burning softvers, it didn't helep, I am sure that the problem is, that my lens aren't clean, but I don't know how to clean them. Any suggest?

People if you don't want to open your drive, use something as simple as this: http://shop.store.yahoo.com/popular-...237853055.html or this http://www.computerhq.com/hardware/p...-id-22674.html

Rob

Hi:

I've been using a version of Nero that came bundled with my CD-RW (wich brand I don´t remember right now, I will post it later on) for a year and the problem started two weeks ago. I didn´t change de software, nor de OS. I´m afraid it´s a matter of dust on de laser or just it is getting used.
I´m apologize for my english.

I hope this to be useful... bye.

I've just recently started having the Power Calibration Error in Nero 5.5.10 (I also had them in Nero 6), I am running Windows XP w/ SP1 and am using a Sony DRU-500a DVDRW Drive to burn CD's and DVD's. The VERY weird thing is this... I can still burn DVD's just fine, one after the other, with NO problems! But I can't burn a single CD. So the lens must be fine if I can burn a DVD? Does it use two lenses or two lasers? I also recently discovered that I had a Trojan Virus in my System Volume Information directory that AVG would occasionally detect, but I wasn't able to remove it until today. (you have to turn OFF Simple File Sharing, then grant yourself rights to see the contents of the folder). I was able to burn 1 cd by making a disk image, then burning the image back to CD, but that only worked once... HELP!

we all have the same problem. but no one have come with the resolvation.

i have a TEAC 8x8x32x it work super fine. cople of months ago i had a problem with my windows xp, it was overloaded whit programs.

i don't remember why, but i've disconected my cdr from the computer. i've installed windows again so it worked smoothly. when i've tried to burn a cd (i don't work with cheap brand) with nero 6 it wasn't working. i have used nero 6 before and it worked. anyway i've installed a prevision version of nero 5.x, ans still no results. I HAVE CLEAND MY LENS, AND NO RESULTS !!!!.

SO, my guest is that WINDOWS XP SUCKS !!!!!!!!

it should be an update or something that will corect the problem.
if i find it i'll reply again.

bye

Hey,

I had been having power calibritaion errors off and on for the past 6 months and my burner would put 1 second dead airs randomly into audio cds. I have browsed the message boards and this was my sequence of events, which ultimately led to a solution:
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1-Nero must be doing it, everybody with the problem is using nero

This was WRONG, tried several different cd programs and some wouldn't even burn at all.
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2-Firmware is messed up.

This too was wrong, I tried three different releases of firmware for my drive, none of them worked.
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*3-I decided my lense was dirty:

This turned out to be the problem, however at first it was deceiving.

I went to Best Buy and bought a lense cleaning cd. This did nothing, in fact I think it may have made things worse.

I got some air duster and just sprayed it around my drive, this is a waste of time and money don't bother. It may be possible to clean the lense this way, but its tought to know where the lense is.

So I gave up for a while, wasted a bunch of cd's and was about to just buy a new burner. Realizing I had nothing to lose I decided to open it up. I took the burner out of the case, and opened the burner up. I noticed there was a negligible amount of dust and I notice the rails that move the lense/laser up and down to read the cd were slightly lubricated but need to be re-lubed. So, I lubricated the metal rails and cleaned the lense with an alchol wipe. This cleared up the problem. I also realized it was taking the player a long time to recongize a cd in the drive, this is not longer a problem either.
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Some final words of caution: I do not recomend doing this if you aren't comfortable around electronics, I am a computer science major and this computer is a hobby machine so if I !#$% it up, its ok. I am not responsible if you scratch your lense or short out the board on the cd player. DO THE CLEANING PROCEDURE AT YOUR OWN RISK. OK. I AM NOT GOING TO BUY ANYBODY A NEW CD PLAYER BECAUSE YOU SCREWED UP. This just worked for me and am I telling people about it.

Here are a couple tips:

Don't rush take your time, it maybe tought to get the cd burner apart.

Make sure you discharge your self of static electricity before disassembling, if you don't know how to do that, maybe you should rethink messing with your computer. (err... To do this simply touch something metal that has a current assocated with it. For example, if you touch your computer case, while the computer is off and still plugged in this should relieve you of static.(assuming your case is metal.))

VERY IMPORTANT: Use cleaning alchol not tap water. Tap water has minerals in it that when they dry may leave deposists on the lense this would be bad.

Also do not attempt to dry the lense off, a small scratch will ruin your burner. Let the alchol evaporate, I promise it won't take long.

If you decide to lubricate the rails, don't use a spray like wd40 it may cause problems if it gets sprayed on the circuit board.

Alright that is about it. This really isn't tough to do and as long as you heed the preacuations things should go realitively smoothely.


Thanks for all your other posts, that helped me fix my burner.


questions can be direct to dan181818@icqmail.com

OH and just for further clarification my model was matshita aka matsushita which is the japanese equivolent of panasonic. The model number was ujdd410.

-dan

I am having similar problems. I have a matshita cw-8121 dvd/cdrw combo drive,running nero 6, heres my log can anyone PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME, I cant even find updated drivers. Heres my error log


Windows XP 5.1
IA32
WinAspi: File 'Wnaspi32.dll': Ver=4.60 (1021), size=45056 bytes, created 10/09/1999 12:06:00
ahead WinASPI: File 'C:\Program Files\Ahead\nero\Wnaspi32.dll': Ver=2.0.1.59, size=160016 bytes, created 16/12/2003 19:18:06
Nero version: 6.3.0.2
Recorder: <MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8121> Version: AZ16 - HA 2 TA 0 - 6.3.0.2
Adapter driver: <atapi> HA 2
Drive buffer : 2048kB
Bus Type : default (0) -> ATAPI, detected: ATAPI
CD-ROM: <MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8121 >Version: AZ16 - HA 2 TA 0 - 6.3.0.2
Adapter driver: <atapi> HA 2

=== Scsi-Device-Map ===
DiskPeripheral : FUJITSU MHR2040AT atapi Port 1 ID 0 DMA: On
CdRomPeripheral : MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8121 atapi Port 2 ID 0 DMA: On

=== CDRom-Device-Map ===
MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8121 D: CDRom0
=======================

AutoRun : 1
Excluded drive IDs:
CmdQueuing : 1
CmdNotification: 2
WriteBufferSize: 36700160 (0) Byte
ShowDrvBufStat : 0
EraseSpeed : 0
BUFE : 0
Physical memory : 223MB (228848kB)
Free physical memory: 53MB (54748kB)
Memory in use : 76 %
Uncached PFiles: 0x0
Use Static Write Speed Table: 0
Use Inquiry : 1
Global Bus Type: default (0)
Check supported media : Disabled (0)

1.2.2004
CD-ROM (ISO)
18:52:04 #1 Text 0 File Isodoc.cpp, Line 6029
Iso document burn settings
------------------------------------------
Determine maximum speed : FALSE
Simulate : FALSE
Write : TRUE
Finalize CD : FALSE
Multisession : TRUE
Multisession type: : Start multisession
Burning mode : DAO
Mode : 1
ISO Level : 1 (Max. of 11 = 8 + 3 char)
Character set : ISO 9660
Joliet : TRUE
Allow pathdepth more than 8 directories : TRUE
Allow more than 255 characters in path : TRUE
Write ISO9660 ;1 file extensions : TRUE

18:52:04 #2 Phase 90 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1800
Buffer Underrun Protection activated

18:52:04 #3 Text 0 File Reader.cpp, Line 118
Reader running

18:52:04 #4 Text 0 File Writer.cpp, Line 124
Writer MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8121 running

18:52:04 #5 ISO9660GEN -11 File geniso.cpp, Line 3882
First writeable address = 0 (0x00000000)

18:52:04 #6 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 3101
Turn on Disc-at-once, using CD-R/RW media

18:52:05 #7 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 240
Last possible write address on media: 359848 ( 79:59.73)
Last address to be written: 330423 ( 73:27.4

18:52:05 #8 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 245
Write in overburning mode: FALSE

18:52:05 #9 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 2085
Recorder: MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8121;
CDR code: 00 97 26 66; OSJ entry from: CMC Magnetics Corporation
ATIP Data:
Special Info [hex] 1: D0 00 90, 2: 61 1A 42 (LI 97:26.66), 3: 4F 3B 4A (LO 79:59.74)
Additional Info [hex] 1: 00 00 80 (invalid), 2: 00 00 00 (invalid), 3: 00 00 00 (invalid)

18:52:05 #10 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 406
>>> Protocol of DlgWaitCD activities: <<<
=========================================

18:52:05 #11 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 779
Setup items (after recorder preparation)
0: TRM_DATA_MODE1 (CTransferItem)
2 indices, index0 (150) not provided
original disc pos #0 + 330424 (330424) = #330424/73:25.49
relocatable, disc pos for caching/writing not required/required, no patch infos
-> TRM_DATA_MODE1, 2048, config 0, wanted index0 0 blocks, length 330424 blocks [MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8121 ]
--------------------------------------------------------------

18:52:05 #12 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 948
Prepare recorder [MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8121 ] for write in CUE-sheet-DAO
DAO infos:
==========
MCN: ""
TOCType: 0x00; Session Closed, disc not fixated
Tracks 1 to 1:
1: TRM_DATA_MODE1, 2048/0x00, FilePos 0 307200 677015552, ISRC ""
DAO layout:
===========
__Start_|____Track_|_Idx_|_RecDep_|_CtrlAdr_
-150 | lead-in | 0 | 0x00 | 0x41
-150 | 1 | 0 | 0x00 | 0x41
0 | 1 | 1 | 0x00 | 0x41
330424 | lead-out | 1 | 0x00 | 0x41

18:52:05 #13 Phase 24 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1800
Caching of files started

18:52:05 #14 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 4073
Cache writing successful.

18:52:05 #15 Phase 25 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1800
Caching of files completed

18:52:05 #16 Phase 36 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1800
Burn process started at 8x (1,200 KB/s)

18:52:05 #17 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 2264
Verifying disc position of item 0 (relocatable, disc pos, no patch infos, orig at #0): write at #0

18:52:05 #18 Text 0 File Mmc.cpp, Line 14847
StartDAO : CD-Text - Off

18:52:05 #19 Text 0 File Mmc.cpp, Line 19451
Set BUFE: supported -> ON

18:52:05 #20 Text 0 File Mmc.cpp, Line 15134
CueData, Len=32
41 00 00 14 00 00 00 00
41 01 00 10 00 00 00 00
41 01 01 10 00 00 02 00
41 aa 01 14 00 49 1b 31

18:52:05 #21 Text 0 File Cdrdrv.cpp, Line 1277
18:52:05.891 - MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8121\H2 T0 : Queue again later

18:52:24 #22 SCSI -1023 File Cdrdrv.cpp, Line 1431
SCSI Exec, HA 2, TA 0, LUN 0, buffer 0x02F40000
Status: 0x04 (0x01, SCSI_ERR)
HA-Status 0x00 (0x00, OK)
TA-Status 0x02 (0x01, SCSI_TASTATUS_CHKCOND)
Sense Key: 0x05 (KEY_ILLEGAL_REQUEST)
Sense Code: 0x2C
Sense Qual: 0x00
CDB Data: 0x2A 0x00 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0x6A 0x00 0x00 0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00
Sense Data: 0x70 0x00 0x05 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0A
0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x2C 0x00

18:52:24 #23 CDR -1023 File Writer.cpp, Line 301
Command sequence error

18:52:24 #24 Text 0 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 229
all writers idle, stopping conversion

18:52:24 #25 Text 0 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 223
conversion idle, stopping reader

18:52:24 #26 Text 0 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1658
Set remaining time: 0:00,000 (0ms) -> OK

18:52:24 #27 Phase 38 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1800
Burn process failed at 8x (1,200 KB/s)


Existing drivers:
File 'Drivers\ASPI32.SYS': Ver=4.60 (1021), size=25244 bytes, created 10/09/1999 12:06:00
File 'Drivers\atapi.sys': Ver=5.1.2600.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920), size=86912 bytes, created 29/08/2002 08:27:50 (Adapter driver for rec)

Registry Keys:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\AllocateCDROMs : 0 (Security Option)


Regards

Kelt

I was ready to buy a new burner, but decided to give one of these a try: www.amazon.com

One clean with this and I have had error free burning since!

Here is the official answer re Power Calibration Errors from the FAQ site of my burner manufacturer (Pioneer):


What is Power Calibration error.


A power calibration error is caused by the inability of a DVD-RW drive to use a DVD-R or DVD-RW disk.


DVD-R and DVD-RW disks themselves have information written on them, within this Media ID code there is information that the drive uses to calibrate itself to the disk, when a drive first starts to write to a disk it will burn a small amount of data to a calibration area on the disc, using the calibration information in the Media ID code, and then try to read back the data that it has written. If it cannot be read, then disk will be ejected and fail with a power calibration error.

A power calibration error is normally caused by problems with the media. Should you be experiencing problems with your drive or the media, we recommend that a disk from a good quality manufacturer be used to test it.

For fault finding purposes we recommend the use of a disk of a known high quality, we recommend disks from:


Pioneer Video Corporation
TDK Corporation
Hitachi Maxell
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (Verbatim)
Taiyo-Yuden Co. LTD
Matsushita Electric
Industrial Co.,LTD (Panasonic)
Sony Corporation