cd burner issues again...
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cd burner issues again...
seyedaddy |
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nFm [ not leaving ] ![]() ![]() Group: Private Member Posts: 76 Joined: 18-March 04 Member No.: 9 ![]() |
when i burn 2 cds at a time using my computer at about 40x each, it takes about 8 minutes to burn the cd... with just one cd at a time.. it takes about 3 mionutes. is there any reason for this? also, my buffer fluxuates from 100% and decreases as the burn continues with my lg cd burner. with the lite on dvd burner (when burnign cdrs) its stays at around 98% is that bad?
Why does my lg start high and decrease? Is that bad? How can i imorove performance for burns? just formatted my comp.. thinking my pc was too cluttered or something... but it didnt fix anything... |
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![]() nFm [ Level 2 ] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Full Member Posts: 361 Joined: 23-April 04 From: OZ Member No.: 89 ![]() |
These are IDE burners? If so, are they both running on the same IDE channel (one master and one slave)?
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seyedaddy |
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nFm [ not leaving ] ![]() ![]() Group: Private Member Posts: 76 Joined: 18-March 04 Member No.: 9 ![]() |
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Audiyoda |
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![]() Houston, we have a problem... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 340 Joined: 23-March 04 From: S of Superior-E of Michigan-W of Huron-N of HERE. Member No.: 64 ![]() |
One, the fastest you'll get either drive to run like this is as fast as the slowest drive.
Two, since they are one one channel, the bandwidth is split equally - hence both drives slow down by roughly 50%. |
seyedaddy |
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nFm [ not leaving ] ![]() ![]() Group: Private Member Posts: 76 Joined: 18-March 04 Member No.: 9 ![]() |
i dont think its ever bruned this slow before tho... how can i make this stuff not share bandwidth? the only ide port i have on my mobo is for the floppy drive... but the ide port is smaller than the ones for my cd burner...
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![]() Houston, we have a problem... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 340 Joined: 23-March 04 From: S of Superior-E of Michigan-W of Huron-N of HERE. Member No.: 64 ![]() |
The Floppy controller is not an IDE drive. You're stuck with it as is unless you add a PCI IDE controller (and can get it working - they're a pain to configure since they need their own IRQ), or put one as a slave on the other IDE channel like this:
Primary Channel: Boot HDD, secondary CD-RW Secondary Channel: Primary CD-RW, secondary HDD You'll still run into lags since information must come off one of the HDDs and IDE is not a two way street. There is not way to control the bandwidth of a IDE channel nor can you change it from it's parallel form. So no matter how you configure your drives, you will run into this problem burning two discs at once. |
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