Remove the CD-drive, move the Burner on the master of channel and retry.   
   Also, make sure you go to BIOS of your machine and check a few things up,   
   e.g. check the LBA, DMA settings, turn off "PnP OS" etc etc.   
      
   Eugenia   
      
      
   "William Ove"  wrote in message   
   news:40af81f8_5@newsfeed.slurp.net...   
   > I picked up an older NetVista box and installed BeOS on it. The box   
   > contains a CD ROM drive as well as a CD Burner. I would like to get CD   
   > burning working in BeOS and have not had much success.   
   >   
   > The CD Drive is connect as a slave drive and the Burner is set as   
   > master both are on the same channel. The other channel has the hard   
   > drive. The CD drive works very poorly, simple reading takes forever.   
   > The burner works fine for reading but not for burning.   
   >   
   > I have downloaded Helios which identifies the drives and after setting   
   > up a project provides the option to burn the disk. It will set waiting   
   > for a long time, then report that it is burning, but the burner itself   
   > does nothing.   
   >   
   > Any pointers to get this working would be appreciated.   
   >   
   > thanks   
   > bill   
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