SATA Performance

PaxVitae

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Feb 22, 2004
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I?m currently running Windows 2000 - AMD64 512MB on a MSI K8T NEO-FSR motherboard socket 754 K8T800, SATA/ATA with a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120GB S-ATA S-ATA/150 8MB cache 7200RPM. When I go to burn a DVD with my MSI DVD-burner IDE DR4-A, Retail DVD+R/+RW and DVD-R/-RW. This DVD is capable of x4 burns but because of buffer under run problems I can only burn at x2. I was wondering if anyone might have some good tips or tricks for fixing this problem. I assume my system should be fast enough to support x4 burns.

I know things like the DMA, and PIO modes for the IDE DVD, but as for SATA Hard Driver settings under Windows??? I don?t know if you can do those types of settings. This is my first PC with SATA. Any tips would be great.
 

eklass

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this might sound silly, but are you sure your blank dvds support 4x burns ? many cheap discs are 2(.4)x
 

PaxVitae

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My Disks are braned at x4 so I hope that isn't the problem. It's when I do a simulated burn test to determin the max burn rate it always says x2 as my HD can't keep up the pace. I've defrage my HD so I don't think thats causing it.