Have copied audio tape and trying to burn to CD. Getting message: "Writer error-buffer underrun occurred. (06/c5/00)

Using Roxio Easy CD Creator 6

do you have an old burner?
Modern drives can't suffer buffer underruns.
If this is the case, use a burning program that shows correct error messages.

We can do nothing with this error.
log?
DMA enabled or disabled?
use another program.

Roxio sucks

Did you break up the .wav files or are you just trying to burn one 700MB .wav file to CD?

Not true. It is a lot less likely but still can happen.

From V-5.x - no

With >600 posts you should know better. Don't start me on under-run errors on my 'old' drives; the MMC and vendor code might be there, but the drive still has to respond to it. Low-end Ricohs with Samsung chipsets were notorious for it. When I think back to 2001 and the number of errors, it makes my skin crawl. btw, contradicting minix is unwise in the best of circumstances.

It was one file. It was a tape of music I was doing for my wife. An earlier tape was successful. Not sure if it matters but the earlier CD was about 75% full after being burned. The one that was not successful would have had about 25 % burned.

well, I wouldn't say that... I don't design or make burners, and I'm not sure if I'm right.
But, Ssseth, how is that possible? (I'm interested).
Theorically, before the buffer gets empty, the burning process is stopped and continued when more data is available. How could the system fail?

Some BurnProof systems need software to activate it, but I think most burners today use BurnProof even if software doesn't support it.

I'd say that this error warning is a "generic" message for a lot of errors (like media error?)

@ljh, what drive do you have?
Roxio software isn't known for the best burning engines. If your drive is old, there are programs that will care better for the disc... for audio Feurio is the best, Nero is usually good, and probably Prassi too.
If the drive is modern, I bet it was a problem with that particular disc. Did you burn too fast?

Well you can turn burnproof off with some modern writers/software combos. Beats me why anyone would want to do so though (unless they like shiny new coasters that is ).

@ ljh

What writer do you have?

My burner is a crx140e.

Have been trying different things. Did a defrag and dumped all temp files, and turned off all programs, turned off background tasks and burned at a slower rate.

Will let you know results after burn (or try to burn) additional tapes.

Thanks

oh, the old Sony 8x.
http://www.feurio.com/English/Writer..._crx_140e.html

Of course, it hasn't got BurnProof and buffer underrun is possible.

In this case, the best way to avoid it is using a program with a good burning engine.
I think I've never had a buffer underrun with Feurio. That's my recommendation.
The demo version can be used with no limitation in features or time.
It also have an audio capture module (Feurio CD-Manager -> Project directory -> Record Audio data)

With this program you can easily check if the buffer in the drive and RAM is stable enough or not while burning.

You can configure a RAM buffer as big as you wish (well, don't use too much memory for that and leave the system without it).