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crazychicken

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I have a 16x cendyne cd burner on my secondary channel, and my hdd and a 50x cdrom on my primary. Copying hdd to cd works great, but it takes 20 minutes to copy cd to cd. How can i fix this. Please lmk asap

thanks alot

daivd
 
Is the burner set to the master on the secondary IDE port? Who is master and slave on the Primary IDE port?
 
The burner is single on the secondary and the cdrom is slave on primary and the hdd is master on the primary.

hope that helps.

david
 
CD to CD copy speed is limited by the speed of your CD-ROM, not it's IDE connection. Even the fasted CD-ROMs don't max out IDE's bandwidth. Also, keep in mind CD-ROMs don't constantly run at their max rated speed. If the max your CD-ROM can sustain at one part of the CD is 8x, then a CD to CD copy will probably go at 8x (assuming the CDR software is controlling the speed based on testing drive speed.)

A quality CD-ROM that can maintain high speed throughout the entire CD would be the best solution.

 
suggest you double check that DMA is enabled for your drives!
if your m/board is using a via chipset, have you installed the via drivers?
 
yes it is VIA and yes the drivers are installed. How do you enable DMA on win98? I know with 2k it is just as easy as checking the "Enable DMA" box, but where is it in 98? Also, will a Prime Perifreals 50x do the job? Or is an IOMAGIC 56x much better?

let me know

thanks
david
 
To enable DMA in Win98, you need to enter the device manager in the system properties dialog. This can be opened in one of two ways:Click 'system' in the control panel, or press the 'windows key' and the Pause-Break key simultaneously.

Once opened, click on the device manager tab, and click the 'plus' sign next to cd-rom. Double click the Cd-rom you want to enable DMA on, and click on the settings tab of the cd-rom properties window that you just opened. Click the box marked DMA, and click ok. Repeat this procedure on your other cd-rom/Cd-rw. It might be a good idea to check to see if your hard drive has DMA enabled while your there.

I hope that helps, and personally I don't think there would be a difference in data copying with either of those 50x drives (the Prime and I/O magic). Audio copying speeds might differ between the two however.

Jake
 
for win98, look under cdroms in device manager the look under settings for each drive.
as for your reader drive, suggest you go to cdspeed2000.com & d/load cdspeed to check your drive's DAE! 🙂
 
On my system, copying directly from the 54x CD-ROM to the 16x burner is always considerably slower than copying via a disk file. I assume it has something to do with start/stop times for the two devices. It's much faster to use the 54x to read the CD to the hard drive and burn it from there.
 
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