Lite-on 40x burner speed limit

[noxipoo]

Hi, i just bought a lite-on burner and the burner limits the top speed of the burn to what the CDs are rated at. I have fuji film 16x cdrs from before and would like to know if i can force the burner to detect it at a faster speed so Nero would burn faster. currently nero changes the top speed to 16 or starts with 16x if the CD is already inserted. thanks

 

[pdo]

have you update your firmware yet? If I were I would just upgrade firmware to 48x. I also use Fuji 16x on my Lite-On but I can burm them at 48x.

 

[Mavrick007]

You can take off SmartX, which picks the speed of the cd from a list of "known" media, and if it doesn't see it, it lists it at a certain specified speed, 16x in your case cause it sees it as a 16x cd. If you turn off SmartX, then you can probably force it to burn at 24x or maybe higher (32x possibly) but it may have problems which SmartX would otherwise normally pick up.

If these are fuji 16x cdrs then they are probably pretty decent (check to see if they are Ty's, made in Japan) and will burn faster from given experience with no problem.

 

[noxipoo]

Paldo - I updated it with the latest firmware, thats not the prob i'm having and don't want to OC it. no need.

Maverick - they are TYs, where would i do disable SmartX?

-thanks

 

[stevewm]

In Nero goto the Recorder menu, then Choose Recorder. Highlight your CD-RW drive in the list and a button labeled Advanced will show up at the bottom of the window, click it and untick SmartX.

On some drives you will 2 options that both say SmartBurn, if this is the case you want to untick the right most one.

 

[noxipoo]

thanks Steve, its giving me all the speeds now.

anyone know what speeds Fuji film (made in Japan) rated at 16x can burn at?

 

[Mavrick007]

I wouldn't try burning them much faster than 32x, but you could try them at 40x if you'd like to see what the rate of success would be but it's only going to save you about 30secs of burn time or so.

I don't think I would uncheck SmartBurn cause that's what will take the place of the small buffer in case you get buffer underrun, but SmartX supposedly just "verifies" a list of media that it has at certain speeds and if it doesn't have it listed, it will default lower to a safe burning speed. Now the media could very well be good at twice the speed, but even if it's not supported it doesn't mean that it won't work.