Lite On 16/10/40x burner seems slow

[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

 

[wasnlos]

DMA-mode is enabled for the burner ?
otherwise you'll do the whole job in PIO-mode, which would perhaps explain the problem

 

[ucvb6]

double checked the mode, and it is set at DMA.

 

[wasnlos]

are both drives, the dvd and the burner, hooked to the same IDE-channel ?
what happens if you only hook up the burner ?
which recording software do you use ?
tried an UDMA-66/100-cable ? may sound silly, but it's worth a try.

 

[LarryJoe]

Try doing a straight data burn and see if the time is more on the 16X mark. If you are burning mp3 to cda, then the decode process is extending your burning time.

LJ