pickles

Thanks much for the reply and explanation. I had considered I wouldn't have been the first to suggest this and looked but I didn't find anything (probably my fault really). I just thought it would be nice, since ImgBurn has been so newbie-friendly with other things, I've found. Does make sense the problem is with Windows, too, just in general, not to mention Windows itself can report being in the wrong mode... Anyway, here's a big kudos for ImgBurn in the first place (great software and very grateful I'm not pressed into buying Nero.. ick).

Some time ago my DVD burner started going slow (It seemed to be a process getting slower and slower, but perhaps I hadn't watched close enough). It's a little old and figured it was just dying. What I think happened though is that I was using ImgBurn to try and read a bad disc, and increased the number of retries (my fault, entirely, this is a feature request, not a bug report ) and I think that caused Windows to change my IDE channel to go from Ultra DMA 2 to PIO (without telling me, of course, and I had no idea it even would). I kept using ImgBurn, however I had to lower the burn rate to 2.4x after burning a few coasters. (This is where I thought it was gradual, as I thought I went slower and slower, but still had some success.. Perhaps not though, been awhile.) Anyway, to get to the point, is it possible for ImgBurn to detect what transfer mode a drive is using and inform the user if read/write speed is set too high for PIO? (As a consequence, it will inform the user that they are using PIO at all and a good indication that Windows changed it.. If someone only burns at a slow speed and Windows switches them to PIO, it seems moot anyway..)