I got a 48 speed writer and using x40 media so im burning at that speed but writing a cd takes 8 minutes (a bin image) but in genral it takes around 6. I though it could do a cd in 3
jamie

Moving to CDR/CDRW ...

You are not burning at x48 or x40 if it takes 8 mins .

(1) DONT PUT READER & WRITER ON SAME IDE CABLE ( i use pci ide card with writer on ide cable 1 & reader on ide cable 2 ) .
(2) MAKE SURE DMA IS ENABLED ON DRIVE'S OR IDE CHANNELS IF YOUR RUNNING XP .
(3) USE PROGRAM LIKE ALCOHOL 120% FOR CD COPY ( it shows speed of burn ) .

you're not alone... check out my post:

http://www.cdrom-guide.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=238153

i did all of the above (what flinstone said) and still takes 8 min to burn a full cd on the fly. it DID take only 3min for burning a full cd directly from the hd, though.

Deo

Originally posted by dfarrales


i did all of the above (what flinstone said) and still takes 8 min to burn a full cd on the fly. it DID take only 3min for burning a full cd directly from the hd, though.



my guess is its the drive you are reading from. what are you trying to burn? Some types of cd eg VCD take longer to read in some drives.

that's exactly what i was testing my on-the-fly burns w/ (vcd's). the source cd drive is 52x i believe.

dfarrales

Cos a cd drive is 52x does not mean it's a good reader , It's how good it is at extracting data from the cd . The lite-on dvd 163 is good reader ,It keeps buffer full when my writer is burning at 38x ( not set at 38x ,burning at 38x ) , I had a 40x drive that would not keep up with a 16x writer .

ahhhhh... i see. never considered that. i don't know the brand of the reader, but i definately does have a difficult time keeping the buffer full while writing. that's probably the issue w/ my problem.

when looking for a cdrom that extracts files good/fast, what info should we be looking for in the specs of the drive? or is it just by reputation (ie.. lite-on=good, brand x=bad)

thanks...

Reputation not just speed , I found lite-on & teac do the job but the teac needed firmware up-date to run at max speed .

Check out lite-on they are good value .