when burning DVDs using nero 6.6.0.1 the burning seems to take an absolute age, I have an 8 speed write and 4 speed media and it is taking an age 50 minutes plus. The buffer level of the drive is bouncing around continuously from 80% to 0% and the computer buffer seems to randomly either stay at full or grind right down to 0.
The system is completely idle otherwise.
The verification seems to work fine, taking only 10 minutes or so for a full 4.7gig HD
My System
Windows XP Home SP2 Athlon 2500+ XP MSI K7N2 Delta (NForce 2 chipset) 1 gig RAM (2 x 512 meg DDR2700 Samsung sticks) Leadtek A350tdh FX5900 running at 400/700 Maxtor 7Y250P0 250GB Ultra ATA/133 7200RPM 8meg buffer (primary master) Western Digital Caviar WD800BB 80GB Ultra ATA/100, 7200 RPM, 2MB (Primary Slave) NEC ND2510a (8x8x32) (Secondary Master) AOpen CD-RW CDW4852 (48x24x52) ATA-2 (Secondary slave) ITE Raid ATA-133 Controller IT8212 Matashita DVD-RAM SW-9581 (2x) ATA-4 (on raid card secondary master) Belkin F5U508EA 3xUSB2 & 2xFirewire PCI card
-- ButIstillneedtoknowwhat'sinthere!Thekeytoanysecurity systemishowit'sdesigned!Thatdependsonwhyitwasdesigned! Ihavetoknowwhatwhoeverdesigneditwastryingtoprotect! (Blakes 7, City on the Edge of the World - Vila in typical panic mode)
Robbie McFerren 18 January 2005 01:29:56 [ permanent link ]
I have good news and some bad news. The good news is that you burner is working properly as far as the buffer underrun is concerned. The bad news is that you are having buffer underruns. It may be wise to remove the CD-Burner because it is running on ATA 2 and the DVD-Burner likes ATA 4. While I don't have a problem with mixing devices on my system (my hdd runs at full speed even though the Zip is PIO mode 0 or original IDE). Another Alternative is to put the DVD ROM in an external IDE enclosure and plug it into a USB 2 port. It won't work on a 1.1 because it will only be able to transfer at 5/9x. Remember 1x DVD equals 9x CD. "Luke Curtis" <mfll78@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message news:959ou09d1sgile6ldphhk839knh487vd90@4ax.com...> when burning DVDs using nero 6.6.0.1 the burning seems to take an> absolute age, I have an 8 speed write and 4 speed media and it is> taking an age 50 minutes plus.> The buffer level of the drive is bouncing around continuously from 80%> to 0% and the computer buffer seems to randomly either stay at full or> grind right down to 0.>
The system is completely idle otherwise.>
The verification seems to work fine, taking only 10 minutes or so for> a full 4.7gig HD>
My System>
Windows XP Home SP2> Athlon 2500+ XP> MSI K7N2 Delta (NForce 2 chipset)> 1 gig RAM (2 x 512 meg DDR2700 Samsung sticks)> Leadtek A350tdh FX5900 running at 400/700> Maxtor 7Y250P0 250GB Ultra ATA/133 7200RPM 8meg buffer> (primary master)> Western Digital Caviar WD800BB 80GB Ultra ATA/100, 7200 RPM, 2MB> (Primary Slave)> NEC ND2510a (8x8x32)> (Secondary Master)> AOpen CD-RW CDW4852 (48x24x52) ATA-2> (Secondary slave)> ITE Raid ATA-133 Controller IT8212> Matashita DVD-RAM SW-9581 (2x) ATA-4> (on raid card secondary master)> Belkin F5U508EA 3xUSB2 & 2xFirewire PCI card>
--> ButIstillneedtoknowwhat'sinthere!Thekeytoanysecurity> systemishowit'sdesigned!Thatdependsonwhyitwasdesigned!> Ihavetoknowwhatwhoeverdesigneditwastryingtoprotect!> (Blakes 7, City on the Edge of the World - Vila in typical panic mode)
when burning DVDs using nero 6.6.0.1 the burning seems to take an> absolute age, I have an 8 speed write and 4 speed media and it is> taking an age 50 minutes plus.> The buffer level of the drive is bouncing around continuously from 80%> to 0% and the computer buffer seems to randomly either stay at full or> grind right down to 0.>
Also, if you have not done a defrag for a long time, that could be your problem.
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:46:45 -0800, "Kent_Diego" <None@Nomicrosoft.com> wrote:
You need to check and make sure that the dvd burner is running in dma mode>> and not pio.....>>
Agreed! That happened to me too. Use an 80 conductor IDE cable if you have>one.>
-Kent
I changed a rounded ATA 133 cable for a flat 80 pin cable, moved it from the raid card to the motherboard and put it on its own on the channel (the text file was out of date) and it seems to be fine now....
-- ButIstillneedtoknowwhat'sinthere!Thekeytoanysecurity systemishowit'sdesigned!Thatdependsonwhyitwasdesigned! Ihavetoknowwhatwhoeverdesigneditwastryingtoprotect! (Blakes 7, City on the Edge of the World - Vila in typical panic mode)
