DVD Burner Takes FOREVER!!!

[tedcera]

I just got a Sony DVD burner. It is 16x and is also capable of burning Dual Layer.

I have also installed DVD Shrink to backup my DVDs.

It takes me 1hr 30min, minimum, to backup the DVD and another 40min+ to burn the DVD.

WHY??

My computer is only running a 733mhz with 384mb RAM, but still, this should not be.

A friend has a 3.6Ghz pc with 1gb RAM and he is experiencing the same problems, but with another burner.

Has anyone else experience this problem before? Do you know what was wrong?

I don't think it's the drive because it reads and write just fine, it just takes a while.

Let me know.

Ted
http://thenutthouse.net

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Possibly because DMA is disabled on the drive?

You can check that from Device Manager,

in Win9x/ME it's under the DVD drive properties,

in Win2k/XP/2003 it's under the IDE controller properties.

 

[tedcera]

Mictlantecuhtli:

It Worked!!

Thank you so much!!

What exactly is DMA, and what is the PIO that mine was set to before?

Thanks again,

Ted
http://thenutthouse.net

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

DMA = Direct Memory Access, as the name says, devices can access memory directly, without having to use the CPU.

PIO = Programmed I/O (input/output), again as the name might reveal, CPU has to be programmed to handle input and output (and thus the slower CPU, the more it will slow down).

 

[knuckleball]

my settings can only be set to dma if available. sometimes i burn in 15 minutes, sometimes almost and hour. i figure it just has to do with the size. i have a gig of ram 2.6 ghz proc. plenty of resources.

 

[knuckleball]

now since ive posted to this message, my dvds are taking longer to burn. like 2 hours. thats what i get.lol