CD Burning Speed

Aiken · #1 June 14th, 2004, 01:37 AM

Btw, Fyron, precise information about CD-R drive vendor/model and Nero Version could help us

Paul1980au · #2 June 14th, 2004, 01:41 AM

Perhaps yu need to raise the max burning speed - or perhaps some issues with the upgraded windows are the order of the day - you could try gettign a hold of the latest Version of nero.

Slynky · #3 June 14th, 2004, 03:01 AM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
After recently upgrading from the mire of XP to win 2000, my 48x CD burner now takes 6.5 minutes to burn CDs at 48x, which is about the speed of 16x burning. I tried using the Device Manager to update the drivers for the drive, but that accomplished nothing. Any ideas as to why my CD burner now burns so slowly, and how to fix it?

Of course, on the lighter side, that might make one check mark for the XP you hate so much. (actually, considering your stance on XP and W2K, surprised you even had it at all)

Fyron · #4 June 14th, 2004, 03:05 AM

I got it for free from my university... had to try it to know how to bash it better, afterall.

Fyron · #5 June 14th, 2004, 03:15 AM

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Originally posted by aiken:
Btw, Fyron, precise information about CD-R drive vendor/model and Nero Version could help us

I upgraded Nero to the latest Version, and flashed the firmware of the CD drive (Khypermedia 48x/24x/48x) to the latest Version. No change.

Slynky · #6 June 14th, 2004, 03:47 AM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
I got it for free from my university... had to try it to know how to bash it better, afterall.

Well, that's certainly fair enough

. Kind of like trying out an American car and then wising up enough to go back to Japanese (uh-oh...do I see a can of worms being opened?).

Actually, to get back on topic...I don't burn mine at full speed anyway. For some unexplainalbe reason, I think I get better results and a wide variety of PCs by doing that...especially our (3-drive) CD duplicator at work.

LonghornXtreme · #7 June 14th, 2004, 04:17 AM

Fyron you might want to check and see if UDMA is activated in device manager for the IDE channel that your CD burner is hooked up to.

Right click on My computer then pick manage

then pick device manager

somewhere in the device manager list it should say IDE controller

then expand that and look for primary and secondary ide channel... even if you don't know which one your CDR is on you should be able to look at the properties of both IDE channels. Under their advanced tabs make sure "DMA if available" is set. If the drives are not running in UDMA mode then that's most likely the problem as the drive is not getting information into it fast enough to burn at high speed...

Lemme know if that helps...