Automatic Write Speed with 2 Identical Drives

[StirlingMac]

Hi Everyone

New on the forum and have finally taken the plunge to see if someone can help me.

I have 2 identical optical drives on my rig - benq 1655's.

I have setup the Automatic Write Speed function in Imgburn and I love it - but it only seems to work with the one drive.

I have often been caught out burning with the drive that does not work - as it burns at MAX speed.

I also have Imgburn setup as my burner for DVDFab and the same happens here.

The function works perfectly on the one drive - but the second seems to ignore it.

Thanks for any help

[mmalves]

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=4249 - check if the speed isn't set for only one device.

[StirlingMac]

Hi mmalves

 

Thanks for reply. I have checked but Imgburn always shows 1 type of drive in the drop down boxes in the AWS setup area. The 2 are shown in other areas on drop down boxes as location 0.0.0 and 0.1.0.

I have no problem selecting either as the burner.

FYI I am running XP Pro Sp3 with both optical drives on the same ide - mobo only has the 1 as the others are SATA connects. Unfortunately the drives came as part of the package so I could not specify SATA ones. The drive that works is the one that is set as master on Location 0. The slave on Location 1 is the one that seems to ignore the AWS setup.

 

I had time over the weekend to play around with this and swopped one of the BenQ's with an LG. This config caused absolutely no problems and AWS was perfect. Put the slave BenQ back in and it does its own thing.

 

Maybe I should just leave the LG in, then Imgburn does not seem confused.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

If the program lists the correct write speed in the log and the main window then it knows what it's doing.

 

Enable I/O debug mode before you burn (press F8), the drive must be rejecting the commands or something. Save the log to a file (via the log window) and upload it.