Lite On 16/10/40x burner seems slow *FIXED* take a look if you own a Lite On burner :)

[ucvb6]

hello,

i wanted to test out the new burner so i made a music cd.

basically, i burned 72 minutes of musci(724mb) in 12 min 40 sec.

is this normal? for some reason, i feel like my old TDK 8/4/32 was faster

 

[h0vic]

Yes, this is slow for a 16x. 12 minutes to burn the CD is the speed of a 8x.

Make sure you set the CD software to the correct speed and that you don't use the computer too much while burning. That would cause the buffer to go down to 0% a lot. You can tell when this happens when the LED on the burner changes to green instead of orange. Also, make sure your CD can handle at least up to 16x speed. Try other brands of CDs because some burners are picky and don't work well with certain kinds.

 

[ucvb6]

double checked the speed, even tried a diff CD brand but still no luck.

anyone have any other suggestions? could it possibly be a bad drive?

 

[dingdongdingdong]

did you enable DMA yet?

 

[ucvb6]

yep

 

[synet]

The drive seems to work very well for me. Btw, do you have the latest version of firmware for this drive? Can you email it to me?

 

[ucvb6]

problem fixed...all it took was a flash to the latest firmware(i'm new to this firmware stuff)

i want to thank everyone for there suggestions.



synet,

here's a link to the firmware page where i downloaded it from:

firmware page

hope this helps