I have a petiumIII 800mhz with 256mb ram and Windows XP

I have a liteon 24x10x40 and a mitsubishi diamon data 50x cd-rom
th thing is when i copy of the harddrive i can burn at 24x fine
however when i try to copy on the fly it only burn at around 8-10 speed the whole way through
i am using tdk's for both reading and writing
when i read an image in my cd-rom it never reaches speeds above 16x (did a check with nero speed thingy) however my liteon reaches full speed (40x) towards the end
i want to be able to burn on the fly because it currently takes about 10 minutes to burn a full cd on the fly whereas it only takes about 3 minutes from the hardrive

Any help
i really wanna burn at 24x on the fly
not 8speed

thanks

It's clear that the CDROM is the bottle neck.

Try enabling DMA for the CDROM if it's not. And move it to the other IDE channel if it's on the same channel with the burner now.

how do you move it to another ide channel?
DMA is already enabled

Connect the CDROM to the same IDE ribbon cable with the HD. Set the jumper at the back of the CDROM to Slave (SL) position.

Leave the burner on the secondary IDE channel. Make sure its jumper is at the Master (MA) position.

hmm i'll give it a try
thanks for your help

Let me make it a bit clearer for you.

Open the PC box and you'll see 2 IDE ribbon cables. One is connected to the HD, this is for the primary IDE channel. A ribbon cable has 2 connectors for Master and Slave devices. One of these 2 connectors is already connected to the HD so use the 2nd connector for the CDROM. But you should remember to put the jumper at the back of the CDROM to Slave (SL) position because the HD must be the Master on the primary IDE channel.

Similarly, the 2nd ribbon cable is for the secondary IDE channel. Leave the burner connected on this cable but check and make sure its jumper is at the Master (MA) position.

Post back if you've got problems.

hey i got it to burn faster but it still takes about 6 minutes to burn on the fly
is that because my pc is only pIII 800mhz
16 speed aint bad but it aint great

by the way thanks so much for helping
you gave clear instructions on how to do what i needed

No, m8! I think 800MHz is sufficient.

Something else you can do: Close other apps before burning. Also, defrag the HD will help.

thanks i will try that
usually i only have nortons running when i am burning
haven't defragged in awhile... i actually forgot about that lol!

damn this
it has gone back to burning at 8x after one burn at 16x
this is bs

Get a new reader, a lot of ide cdroms are useless for otf copying. 2 of best are plextor 40 (SCSI) or lite on dvd rom. Both are faily expensive but worthwhile if you do a lot of copying on fly.

hmm
um how much would i expect to pay wholesale for a plextor 40?