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Hi i have 4 x pioneers (107) on an ide 133 card if i burn at 12x its very slow and bombs out %80 of the time. If however i burn at 6x it bombs out %30 of the time. Is this due to the ide card not being fast enough ?
yes i burn to all 4x at once using nero.
Any ideas
Tia
JonXP Pro
Pentium 4 3.6 with Hyperthreading
2Gig of DDR2
Radeon X300
The IDE card have nothing to do with the burning speed. It's whether or not your DMA is enabled. There also are other things you can try. LOOK HERE
i_XpUser
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right i tried the instructions on the above link and there doesnt appear to be any advance settings on any of my dvd drives or the ata card and there are no conflicts. Yes im using 8x media Ritek GO5 so these should and do burn at 12x but the realistic time is 4x as the buffer levels go crazy up n down. This is a new install of xp so i know it not the o/s.
Thxs guys
XP Pro
Pentium 4 3.6 with Hyperthreading
2Gig of DDR2
Radeon X300
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Have you tried switching the burner to your on-board IDE to see if that is the problem. There are some good and not so good IDE controller cards, so I wouldn't rule out the card being the problem. But, the DMA setting is definitely something to check.
And to answer your question more directly, a PCI IDE Controller card should have more bandwidth available than a CD could fill.
Michael J
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yes i tried the onboard ide but i need 1 ide free to run my o/s from it and extra h/d. How do i get tm my dma if its not where the above link tells me it is...
thxsXP Pro
Pentium 4 3.6 with Hyperthreading
2Gig of DDR2
Radeon X300
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I don't know what kind of pci ide card you have but try here or the manufactor of your card.
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OK, the DMA tab will be missing if you have the Intel Application Accelerator installed - it will set them to the max supported mode automatically.
I just re-read your initial post though. Are you using four separate burners on the controller card? that would probably explain your problem. Since you have two burners on each channel the drives on the same channel are fighting each other for bandwidth. Try buring to just two drives at once (each on separate channels).
If that works fine you might want to lok into getting another controller card and running each drive on a separate channel.
Michael J
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