Burning a DVD!

[medicnick83]

Hi guys,

Ideas please...

I have got 4x SATA HDD's and 2x SATA DVD Writers in my PC.

I've noticed something, to burn a 3GB DVD, it has taken 21 minutes to complete a 3GB DVD!

Any ideas why it takes so long to burn a DVD??!?

I had 2x IDE Writers but I put that in my 'other' PC (server) and took the SATA writers over into my 'main' PC

Thoughts / suggestions please?!?

PS: Burning at 22x, the writers are LG and burning to Verbatim disks

 

[LazyLion]

can you right click on Device Manager and make sure that your Primary and Secondary Drive controllers are running on Ultra DMA mode?

 

[medicnick83]

When I goto Device Manager, IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers,

I have the following;

Intel (R) ICH10 Family 2 port Serial ATA Storage Controller 2 - 3A26
Intel (R) ICH10 Family 4 port Serial ATA Storage Controller 1 - 3A20
Primary IDE Channel
Primary IDE Channel
Secondary IDE Channel
Secondary IDE Channel

When I check Primary IDE Channel (both of them) then devices are on: Ultra DMA Mode 5

When I check Secondary IDE Channel (both of them) then devices are on: The one Current Transfer Mode: PIO mode

Now If I'm not wrong, PIO mode is the 'slower' mode.

I have DMA if available selected, but why is it not using Ultra DMA Mode 5 - the other one is.

 

[Sting]

If you are using a SATA dvd-writer then it does not matter what the IDE channel is doing...

 

[LazyLion]

When I goto Device Manager, IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers,

I have the following;

Intel (R) ICH10 Family 2 port Serial ATA Storage Controller 2 - 3A26
Intel (R) ICH10 Family 4 port Serial ATA Storage Controller 1 - 3A20
Primary IDE Channel
Primary IDE Channel
Secondary IDE Channel
Secondary IDE Channel

When I check Primary IDE Channel (both of them) then devices are on: Ultra DMA Mode 5

When I check Secondary IDE Channel (both of them) then devices are on: The one Current Transfer Mode: PIO mode

Now If I'm not wrong, PIO mode is the 'slower' mode.

I have DMA if available selected, but why is it not using Ultra DMA Mode 5 - the other one is.

sometimes programs force the DMA off. You can safely set it back to DMA mode. They should all be set to DMA mode. then reboot.

 

[Sting]

Do you have any IDE devices plugged in?

 

[kilo]

After i got a new SATA liteon writer i also got such slow speeds, turned out it was the writing program in my case.
Dont know if it will help but maybe try another program.

 

[Keeper]

when my DVD's started to burn that slow, it was packing up.... how new is it?

 

[TheRift]

And what speed media were you using? My LG DVD writer can take a while to fill in a R/W disc and next to no time to fill in a 16x DVD-R/+R disc.

 

[medicnick83]

The DVD's I'm using are expensive (when you compare them to 'ol cheapo's)

I think I fixed it
I went into BIOS, FORCED UDMA5 on both the writers.
Uninstalled them from Device manager, rebooted and well, I think it's fixed.