Slow Cd burning

[n0e5cape]

I'm using a 48X cd / dvd player with Liteon 40/12/48, and it is taking over 8 minutes to burn a cd, is that normal?

During the burn process with nero, my used read buffer starts full but then fluctuations down to a stable 56%. It was not doing this before i formatted my harddrive and i was wondering if i installed something wrong. I could have sworn i was burning faster before.

Can someone help?

Thanks.

 

[amdskip]

Something is not installed correctly, or something. Is DMA enabled? What operating system? What is your drive configuration set up as, master, slave, etc?

 

[n0e5cape]

first of all... thanks a lot for your reply

i have some questions

where do i check if DMA is enabled?
and which drive should be slave and which should be master?

I have no idea how to configure my drive....

 

[grunjee]

Could be the media you're using. I bought some cd-r's a while back, they were rated at 32x. I have a 24x Plextor.

Took me 2 spindles to figure it out, but my drive saw the cd-r's as cheap, and would only write at 16x. Bought some known good quality cd-r's and I was back at 24x.

If you bought some no-name ones, go and get some brand name ones, like Fuji, Sony, Imation, Memorex, etc. These have proven well for me.