cd recording help

[djdoboy]

hi,

hopefully someone can help me with this problem.

I recently bought a Lite-on 16x cdrw with burnproof running it on a Soyo Dragon mb with an Amd 1.5giger with 256megs of ddr memory on a window2k os.
my problem is that I can't burn at 16x without the use of burnproof and in essence the recording is slowed down to approx a 12x recorder.
my hd is an Ibm 40giger ata100/7200rpm. I can't seem to figure out why my hd or my system is so slow in transfering data to the cdr that it can't handle a stream at 16x. I've tried defragmenting the hd, changing aspi drivers and various other things to try to have it burn at 16x and it fails without the use of burnproof. my media is also certified at 16x.
my previous recorder was an HP 10x and burning at 10x , the system was pretty much slowed to a craw already.
thanks for any help

 

[djdoboy]

actually after writing this help request, i finally figured out why it wouldn't burn at 16x running windows 2k. since win2k does supply any aspi drivers, i downloaded the adaptec ones. and upgraded to the latest one from 1999. i did this to my previous 10x recorder and always wonder why cpu usage was so high (70-80%) when burning a cd.
after going thru all the other steps like defrag.. and nothing else to work, i realized that it could be the aspi driver itself. found an older version and now it burns perfectly at 16x with cpu usage of roughly 30%. for some odd reason, the new aspi driver hogs up cpu like crazy

 

[bacillus]

do you have DMA enabled for both ide channels??
Device Manager > IDE/ATAPI Controllers > Primary IDE/Secondary
IDE Channel > Advanced Settings > Transfer Mode > DMA if available >
> OK

 

[djdoboy]

yup it's enable. it was the aspi drivers that for some reason made my cpu run at like 90% which pretty much slowed everything down. changing to a older aspi from 1997 made everything perfect.