LG 24x CD-RW - anyone own one of these?

[duuuma]

I just got one and after reading great reviews, I expected good things for this replacement of my reliably quick 10x sony.... However, this thing takes forever to burn anything! I just sat here and watched it take 11 minutes to burn a 75-minute music CD. The estimated time said 4 minutes too.

As I type, it's taking about 8 minutes to copy a 633mb data disk from my 40x liteon drive, which I heard has great ripping speeds...the estimated time said like 2:50.

So any of you owners out there have the same problem or did i get a lemon? I'm using Verbatim 40x blank CD's (the blue AT&T labeled ones) and writing at 24x with burn proof on.


edit: I have it running as a slave to my Lite on 16x DVD too, but my old sony 10x was running as slave too.

 

[ssanches]

I have the drive and I've had a very good experience with it! It's among the fastest 24X on the market, has a quiet operation and is pretty well built.

I usually get burn times of under 3min 45sec for a 700MB data CD and 4 min for an 80min audio CD.

Ensure that your drive is running in M-DMA Mode 2 and not PIO-4! Check for the same in Windows device manager. Running your drive in PIO would definitely make it take longer. Also if you run in PIO you shall see your buffer levels drop from 100% to 0%, then the drive will pause till the buffer fills and then start again...this will make it slow. DMA should definitely be enabled to achieve good performance.

I don't know how good the media you're using is. I use Imation / Moser Baer (Mmore) 32X media

 

[duuuma]

it says my DVD rom (master) is Ultra DMA mode, and the CD-RW is DMA mode. Does your drive run in Ultra DMA or DMA mode?

Do you run Windows 2000 with your drive? Maybe I'll try a different media. thanks!

 

[Sniper82]

Should be burning faster than 11mins. Should be in the 4-6min range for a full CD. My friend has had this drive since March of this year and he burns his up. Never had a problem with it at all.

 

[duuuma]

yeah i figured something was wrong when my 10x took the same amount of time.....


is there a reason why it's not in Ultra DMA mode, but just regular DMA mode? Maybe my jumper settings or something?

 

[BlueWeasel]

I have this exact same drive and the times I get are similar to what ssanches listed.

 

[duuuma]

Is there anyone who might know what the problem might be?

 

[optimistic]

Do you have?

IDE Channel 1 -> Hard Drive
IDE Channel 2 -> DVD (Primary) -> CDRW (Secondary)

?

 

[metalmania]

I have one. It depends on the CD. I used different brands of CDR discs, some are quick, some are slow.

It should be the "smart" burning technique to decide the speed.

 

[ssanches]

Originally posted by: duuuma
yeah i figured something was wrong when my 10x took the same amount of time.....


is there a reason why it's not in Ultra DMA mode, but just regular DMA mode? Maybe my jumper settings or something?

No the DMA thing is correct. The fastest burst speed this drive supports is multiword dma mode-2 (16.67MBps). I thinkt the problem may be elsewhere. Have u tried your drive as a master on a seperate channel (just a test, for sometime you can remove your dvd player and only keep ur burner on the secondary channel). Check your ide cable quality. Also you should install the VIA 4-in-1 drivers for optimum performance if you have a mobo based on this chipset. Also how good is the media that you're using?? U tried other media? also what cd mastering software you are using and what version? have you installed the updates for the software if available?

 

[duuuma]

Right now it's

IDE chan. 1 --> HD1 (primary) --> HD2 (secondary)

IDE chan. 2 --> DVD-ROM (primary) --> CD-RW (secondary)


I'll try using it as only drive on IDE channel 2 and take out the dvd-rom for testing AND I'll try different media. I'm using brand new Verbatim 40x blank cd's.

The IDE Cables are round cables from SVC so i think they should be good.

 

[ssanches]

Originally posted by: duuuma
Right now it's

IDE chan. 1 --> HD1 (primary) --> HD2 (secondary)

IDE chan. 2 --> DVD-ROM (primary) --> CD-RW (secondary)


I'll try using it as only drive on IDE channel 2 and take out the dvd-rom for testing AND I'll try different media. I'm using brand new Verbatim 40x blank cd's.

The IDE Cables are round cables from SVC so i think they should be good.

Try the CDRW drive as the secondary master, alone on the secondary channel. Regarding IDE cables, I prefer the standard ones instead of rounded. Try it with the standard cables when you test the CDRW drive

 

[spanky]

rather then doing cd to cd copies, how long does it take to burn an iso off the hd?

 

[veryape]

My bet would be on a misconfiguration, but of course it's possible you got a bad drive, just not likely. Mine, which is an LG 24x10x40 burns cds in under 4 minutes everytime. It's the fastest 24x on the market, and when it came out it was the top of the line and the fastest in the world. I love mine. Check your settings.

John-Paul

 

[duuuma]

need more help....i used nero to test this drive and it's telling me my burst rate is 1mb/s....something wrong there?