>>>I thought the problem was related that I didn't put the jumper on the CD for the termination. I put it today. So, I have one peripheral on the SCSI controller and it has the termination. The problem is still there.
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>>>I have an Adaptec SCSI controller AHA-3940AU/AUW. I suspect that the problem relies on the SCSI CMOS. If that is, what should I look for?
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>>Have you considered that you might have a head alignment problem? The drive reads and writes its own material, but not stuff from outside. If other people's CD readers have a problem reliably reading from your burner, I'd strongly suggest replacing the burner; a good, cheap IDE CD burner like the Phillips 1280 runsd under US$100, and is reasonably quick and efficient (and if you run XP, XP's native CD-RW supports it from the start.) I've got one of them and a Sony in another machine here at home, purchased after starting to have problems with an HP8200 similar to yours.
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>>If there's nothing else on the IDE channel with the Phillips, it runs in busmastering Mode 4 with no problems.
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>Thanks for the input
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>I can read a CD created by that burner elsewhere. I never had any problem with it. Today, I proceeded with more tests. I used another SCSI card, another SCSI cable, another power cable, etc. It's all the same. I'll try to contact the vendor tomorrow.

Hi Michel,

I had a similar problem with Yamaha SCSI cd burner a while ago. When I contacted techical support they told me to send it to them for service. There was no noise anymore when I got it back.