PIO mode cd-rw drive
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Original Message
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Name: Paul
Date: October 9, 2002 at 11:09:32 Pacific
Subject: PIO mode cd-rw driveOS: WIN98SECPU/Ram: P2 266MHz 96mb |
Comment: I can probably answer this question after some research, but my bios puts my cd-rw (lite-on 1025s) into PIO mode 4. The question is should I go into bios and change from auto settings to manual and change that setting to UDMA? I really have no cmplaint about the cd-rw's speed but I was wondering if it was worth it, to mess with the settings. I can usaully burn about 700mb to a dsik in 2 min and 50 sec and a 70 min cd in 2 min even. thanx for any thoughts or info in advance :-)
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Response Number 1
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Name: ryan
Date: October 9, 2002 at 11:13:54 Pacific
Subject: PIO mode cd-rw drive |
Reply: (edit)if your cd-rw drive is sharing same ide cable with ur hard drive or other devices. the only choice you have is PIO mode.
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Response Number 2
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Name: ryan
Date: October 9, 2002 at 11:14:55 Pacific
Subject: PIO mode cd-rw drive |
Reply: (edit)if you really want ur cd-rw drive to gain maxium performance, let ur cd-rw standalone.
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Response Number 3
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Name: tru
Date: October 9, 2002 at 13:47:48 Pacific
Subject: PIO mode cd-rw drive
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Reply: (edit)My Plextor burner runs in PIO according to my BIOS(Windows says Multi-word DMA...?) and it outperforms my Lite-on DVD drive for data transfers and everything, and the burning is just as fast as it's supposed to be. So you shouldn't concern yourself if the drive is acting normal.
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Response Number 4
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Name: Bryan
Date: October 10, 2002 at 05:26:10 Pacific
Subject: PIO mode cd-rw drive |
Reply: (edit)Most CD-RWs run in PIO mode 4 because they are not UDMA drives. Simple as that. They still run at full speed, however, but use up a few more resources. I have my HDD as primary master and the CD-RW as secondary slave to the DVD drive. Works just fine.
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Response Number 5
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Name: Nick Ritchie
Date: October 10, 2002 at 06:13:03 Pacific
Subject: PIO mode cd-rw drive |
Reply: (edit) The recomended setup for most CD-RW's is to be the secondary master and your other drive CD-ROM or DVD-ROM as the secondary slave. That does'nt mean it wont work with differant setup's ! NicRic
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Response Number 6
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Name: Bryan
Date: October 11, 2002 at 07:10:08 Pacific
Subject: PIO mode cd-rw drive |
Reply: (edit)Not with my CD-RW. Says right in the instructions to install it as per my previous post. I have tried other permutations though and didn't notice any difference.
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Response Number 7
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Name: Jerry O'Hara
Date: October 15, 2002 at 21:47:50 Pacific
Subject: PIO mode cd-rw drive
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Reply: (edit)Can you burn from a HD that is setup as UltraDMA Master on IDE Primary, and a CDRW setup as PIO Slave on IDE Secondary? The reason I ask is because I set my CD's (CDROM and CDRW) to UltraDMA detect. When I tried to burn a CD to CDRW it would just hang. I tried the HD, and same thing. When I formated a CDR as a DirectCD and dragged files from the HD it worked. I went ahead and reset the cd's to PIO mode. I succesfully burned a CD to CDR. Problem is the write speed was at 8X. I have a 40X12X40. Is this the kind of speed I can expect from my CDRW? It's a wonder anyone buys anything more than 8X? I haven't tried burning files off the HD yet to the CDRW using PIO for the CDRW.
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