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cd-rw wont burn at max(52x) speed
Name: true_atlantis Date: December 2, 2003 at 23:22:34 Pacific OS: mandrake 9.1/ win xp CPU/Ram: pentium 4 2.0 ghz 512 mb
Comment:
i just got a new 53x32x52x cdrw (buslink LTR-52327S) and it was working fine yesterday. but now it will not burn at max speed, it will only go to a max of 16x. the even weirder thing was that at one point today after i rebooted into windows, i burned 1 cd at 52x and then when i went to burn a second, it would only burn at 16x. i think that there is something wrong with my hard drives, i dont think it has anything to do with the cd-rw hardware. the reason is because i also got a new hard drive... i have music on the new drive, and when i coppied it over to my old drive, and tried burning it, that is when it got to 52x that one time. any help would be appreciated. thanks
Name: Dave02 Date: December 3, 2003 at 01:05:50 Pacific
Reply:
How is your hardware configured?
Does it look like this?
Primary master old HDD Primary slave new HDD Secondary Master CDRW Secondary slave none
Or like this?
Primary master old HDD Primary slave none Primary master New HDD Primary slave CDRW
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Response Number 2
Name: GerryC Date: December 3, 2003 at 04:04:28 Pacific
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Also, is DMA enabled for the new drive?
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Response Number 3
Name: retrogamer Date: December 3, 2003 at 05:21:26 Pacific
Reply:
What kinds of media where you using? CD-RWs can't burn very fast at all...was that one that went at 16x speed a CD-RW? If not I don't know what the hey's going on. Also, if you're using Roxio's CD burning software, I know that the version that came with my CD-RW drive likes to burn slower than it is actually capable of. I hope this helps.
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Response Number 4
Name: jim Date: December 3, 2003 at 09:19:34 Pacific
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