Serious UNDERperformance with a Liteon 24x burner

[musixian]

Any suggestions as to why, with the rig I have, I can't even burn at 12x with this liteon 24x burner? It is "BURNproof", so the CD's are getting made, but I can't figure out the culprit that won't allow fast burning. I've used the fastest-rated cdr's I can find (up to 16x to date) and still no better. I read on LITEON's (poor) website that it could be my DMA or UDMA settings aren't on for my cd and cd burner. Yet, I can find no simple switch on Win2k to turn it on. :frown: Win98, sure, no problem. But I can't find it in 2k. SUGGESTIONS??

 

[ScrapSilicon]

UDMA....Device Manager...dbl click the CDrom...grab CDRW ..right click...left click Properties..Settings..do same with IDE controller...the Via one if its not DMA...check it also...reboot

 

[altonb1]

I recently had this problem myself with a Pc-Chips M810LMR board. It turns out that the IDE driver for my particular board is severely lacking. I ended up having to setup the system for ACPI, removing the Plug and Play BIOS and let everything be found again by the system (W98SE) and basically fight the system tooth and nail to get DMA active and working. I eventually got it, and burned about 500MB to a CD in 3 1/2 mins.

After making sure you have DMA checked off as mentioned above (windows key/Pause is a shortcut for system properties) see if that helps. If it doesn't, you may want to do a search for newer board specific drivers than what you are currently using. If you use generic MicroSoft drivers, you may not be getting the best performance that can be obtained.

Hope this helps!

-al-

 

[musixian]

UDMA....Device Manager...dbl click the CDrom...grab CDRW ..right click...left click Properties..Settings..do same with IDE controller...the Via one if its not DMA...check it also...reboot

Good advice. However, when I get down to selecting the"settings" where the option should be, there is no settings button/tab, :disgust: which is what I found peculiar in the first place. I know precisely where 98 keeps it, but with this 2000 rig, I've not located it. I know I'm logged in as administrator, so I don't know what else to try at this point. (?)

 

[Paulson]

Get into the Device Manager, then click on your controller (like mine says IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers)

Open that up and go to the "Secondary IDE Channel" right click/properties... Now click on the "Advanced Settings" tab... where it says transfer mode, make sure you have dma if available set...

Then restart and check the status... my lite-on 24x burner is set to Ultra DMA mode right now...

Try that...

 

[musixian]

Yep, secondary is set to UDMA. Anyone no if that automatically carries over to the devices on that channel as well?

 

[zzzz]

try disabling DMA in the bios and see if it works.

 

[musixian]

Turning off the DMA in BIOS? What's the theory?

 

[HappyNic]

I'm guess that if you notice no difference in speed what so ever after you turn off your UDMA in bios, it mean your 24x burner was not set at UDMA in the first place. ..

What speed is your harddrive, is it set at UDMA? also at BURNing are you copying on the fly (cd-rom to burner) or from the harddisk to burner..,, ..

 

[musixian]

<< What speed is your harddrive, is it set at UDMA? also at BURNing are you copying on the fly (cd-rom to burner) or from the harddisk to burner..,, .. >>



The system hard drive is 5400rpm, but the drive I typically burn off of is 7200rpm and the same issue applies there - I'm not sure, with Win2k, on how to check if it's setup for UDMA. Bios seems to indicate it is.

I'm burning both cd-->cd and hdd files-->cd