Does anyone actually burn at 24x on the fly?I have tried but my cdrom cannot read the data fast enough

I burn at 32x on the fly all day long,but the only problem that i have is,its stays stuck sometimes and then jumps to the end.

I too burn everything at 24X OTF. The only thing that ever seems to slow that down for me is when I burn compressed N64 roms for some reason. :confused:

There are a number of variables that will affect whether you can/can't burn OTF at these speeds. Your CD/DVD reader's ability at reading DAE for audio, data extraction rate, how your drive's are connected on your IDE cables, RAM, processor speed, DMA etc, etc.

I would reccomend a viewing at www.cdspeed2000.com as a first stop to see how your CD reader compares to others as regards it's ability to handle DAE & data. If you burn a lot of audio you may wish to consider changing your reader for something such as the LiteOn Ltd-163 which is about the best there is for DAE.

Also, having both CD-ROM and CDRW on the same IDE channel is often a recipie for disaster for OTF burning. If your set-up is configured this way you may want to consider connecting your CD-ROM drive as slave to your HDD and leave your CDRW as the only device on the secondary IDE channel.

HTH :)

Hey i tried burning a data cd yest from my mitsumi 4x8 to my iomega 12x4x32 w/ burnproof and at the end it said unable to burn after like 30 min it reached 100%, is my older reader to slow to be written to a 12? plz help i never did on the fly b4 bc i usually use clone cd, but i thought that this would be faster. thanks.

Test your drive with either NEro Drive Speed or CD Speed
http://www.cdspeed2000.com/index.php