Lite on 52x burner is only 16x?

[Busie23]

Brand new lite-on 52x24x52 burner will only burn at 16x speed. My media is rated at 48x and is brand new media (i have also tried numerous types), my cd-rom is a 52x cd rom (did both on the fly and regular burn), nero is updated to the latest and greates version off thier website. I haven't done any flashing of any kind etc?

When I run the utility's in the nero tool kit folder it also only says that it can write at a maximum of 16x? What is going on?

 

[Tates]

What are the specs on your PC? (mb, operating system)

 

[Doh!]

DMA is enabled? Tried different media?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Did the CDRW come with a bundled version of Nero? You might try uninstalling your current install of Nero and install the bundled software and see if that helps....

 

[Busie23]

I figured it out after checking the DMA, nero version, ide cables, etc....It was that stupid smart burn button? For whatever reason when i first saw it I figured it was not very good to remove it, but then realized it wasn't the same thing as buffer underun.

What's even more funny is the fact that all of the media I tried happened to be 16x media? Even the stuff that was rated higer? Is it quite common for all outdated media to get a new label slapped on it stating it is higher burn speed?

By the way the machine is a P3 667, 256 ram, 20 gb HD clean install of win98se with all updated of drivers, etc. Nero came bundled with the burner and that was the version I used. It even had the new update from nero's website.

DMA option isn't available on my hard drive. I looked in the normal place and it was there.

The other thing that is quite funny is that the blank cd that was bundled with the burner was a 16x? Am I missing something or did i somehow just only have all 16x media around? Confused?

Thanks for the tips!

 

[Doh!]

Update the firmware to the latest. The firmware update is released to recognize more media types for the smart burn (allow smart burn to recognize the quality of the media by matching the media brand/type to the information in the firmware). You can see that Lite-On release a firmware update quite often.

 

[TheCorm]

Weird, but I think it must be down to the media!....I have some Traxdata 12x Media that gets detected as OK for 40x burning, my Generic 48x media gets detected as 48x and I have some unknown speed Aopens that get detected as 32x.

Anyone know exactly how the drive makes this determination??

 

[Doh!]

Just a guess but probably by comparing the ATIP of a cdr media and the information included in the firmware, smart-burn sets the recording speed.