Question: "burning on the fly" -- any help much appreciated!!

[alexlin007]

hey fellow anandtechers,

i just got a new 8X cd-rw drive. i'm using nero/adaptec and i'm trying to copy cd-->cd without copying to the hard-drive first and i always get errors (during simulation). i have the cdrom drives on different ide cables and i don't know anything else that could be causing the problem. the cdr is a yamaha 8X4X24X and my cdrom is a 52x (no name brand). can anybody tell me what's causing the problem? is it b/c i have a cheap cdrom drive?

any help is much appreciated!!

thanks a lots guys,

alex lin
auxlin@uclink4.berkeley.edu

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[LordSandMan]

Well, here is my experince. Check my sig for hardware. The CD rocket is a 12X4X32. The creative DVD is either a 24x or 32x CD reader. I can usually copy at 8X cd to cd. If I don't touch the machine. If I try to surf the net or anything I get a coaster. If I burn at 12x cd to cd I get a coaster. I just always have it make a disk image first. I don't have any problems with that.

 

[alexlin007]

thanks sandman, i just thought since my cdrom was a 52X it should have no problem. i know there's lost of other processes involved, but 8X isn't that fast after all. i guess there's not that much advantage in having a faster burner if you have to make it an image file -- that takes a long time. with my 2X, i can copy cd-->cd no problem.

thanks

 

[BuckMaster]

Try burning from stuff off the H/D if it burns ok more then likely your CD-ROM cant keep up with the burner. Even though you have a 52X no brand cd-rom it has to keep up at 8X at all times while burning. Are you getting underburrer errors?

Also like LordSandMan dont have anything running in the back ground like your screensaver.

 

[Eug]

Can't really help you specifically, but are you talking CD to CD or CD-ROM to CD-R? For the latter, it should work if your system is a speedy one, although to be safe you might want to go to 4X. For CD to CD, it could be problematic, depending on your CD-ROM drive. Most drives cannot properly extract audio from a CD at anywhere near a max data read speed. So a 52X no-name brand CD-ROM drive might actually be too slow for an 8X burn.
If that is your problem then try running CD Speed to check out your drive DAE speed.

I have no problems, but then again, I can only burn at 4X max.

 

[Bling Bling]

do you have DMA enabled? that might make a difference.

I can burn at 12x on the fly with my Teac 540e 40x cd-rom. That drive is great.

 

[Pauli]

Probably your no name CDROM drive can't do DAE fast enough. That's why I get name brand CDROMs like Toshiba - a bit more expensive, but well worth avoiding the hassles.