snarebear Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Lately when burning DVDs, they often take me about an hour and a half. Before,I was able to accomplish this in less than 20 minutes. I recently was using DVD Decrypter, and during the burning process, the buffer would reach 100 percent then quickly deplete to 0 as it burned for a few seconds and repeat the process all over again. Once I went over to ImgBurn, I received the same problem. Changing speed or buffer size has had no effect on the performance. I have kept the .iso files on an external hard drive and burned with them there, and I haven't made any changes to my system. And the ovbious question is, what should I do to fix it. ImgBurnLog.log Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevdriver Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 snarebear,Welcome to the forum.Check to see that DMA is enabled for your burner drive. Also CMC mag is just the the crappiest media in the world. Try someVerbatims or Taio Yudens for better results and longer lasting burns. Your burn rate is set to 2.4X and indeed you did burn at that speed, although your average burn speed is just less than half that. I 19:58:59 Write Speed: 2.4x I 21:21:34 Average Write Rate: 932 KB/s (0.7x) - Maximum Write Rate: 3,753 KB/s (2.7x) The problem may be with the media. Also you should check for firmware updates for your drive. www.rpc1.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snarebear Posted October 4, 2006 Author Share Posted October 4, 2006 I in fact have DMA enabled and I've been to lazy to look around for verbatims or any better media becuase my locals stores don't carry them. For now, I'm fine with using what I have and have been. Also, there haven't been any firmware updates for my drive as it is 3 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blutach Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 If you are fine with what you are using, then be prepared to live with the problems. And the ovbious question is, what should I do to fix it. You've been advised already. Also, there haven't been any firmware updates for my drive as it is 3 years old. Au contraire. You are on 1.25, the latest is 3.20. See here. Take the blinkers off. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lfcrule1972 Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Excuse my question (I have no idea about your PC skills etc) I assume your PC is reporting DMA as enabled, did you follow the handy guide in the FAQ's to actually delete the controller and then on re-boot you should automatically have DMA enabled ? As the FAQ says, sometimes Windoze reports DMA as enabled even when it isn't...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 I think you've hit the nail on the head there LFC. It certainly looks like a DMA problem to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snarebear Posted October 4, 2006 Author Share Posted October 4, 2006 I've just deleted the controllers and rebooted, but I still have the same problem when burning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Having deleted the top level controller entry, did you go back in and check the channels are saying DMA is enabled / being used? If you still never get over 2x when burning, DMA is still to blame - unless of course that's all your drive will do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinningwheel Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 If you ave straightened out your DMA and firmware problems you still have a crap media issue snarebear... I 21:22:16 Source Media Type: DVD+R (Book Type: DVD-ROM) (Disc ID: CMC MAG-M01-00) (Speeds: 2.4x) It's only seen as 2.4X media so 2.7 is faster than than the drive sees it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontasciime Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 did you you say your using an external hard drive to read file from ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Ohh I never read/spotted that! Good call dontasciime! Perhaps it's USB 1.0 and so you'd only get 1mb/s transfer rates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontasciime Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Exactly. Although he will come on and say no its firewire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polopony Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 just to throw my 2cents in I Googled that MID and most if not all the other drives listed didn't even see 2.4x for the media, 4x was the slowest listedand up to 16x . Try a firmware update as this media wasn't even produced when your current firmware was installed on the drive .The drive doesn't really see that media ID and defaults to a speed for CMC MAG that is part of the drives firmware .The 300n is in fact I believe a NEC 1100 a pretty old drive as things go.First step is update firmware and then ditch anything with CMC MAG for a dye manufacturer Like its posted Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden discs are the way to go ,why waste your time and effort by using media that has been described as suitable for landfill ,pathetic garbage www.digitalfaq.com have a read there and it might he if you just want to check if its a usb limitation then throw the drive in the box and burn something find the problem by the proccess of elimination Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lfcrule1972 Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 I have a NEC1100 in a box in the attic ! It certainly burnt faster than the speeds posted at the top, firmware upgraded stopped a couple of years ago but you can still get the last one produced either from http://www.de.nec.de/softwareoverview2.php/id/1333 or possibly try www.rpc1.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blutach Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 See post 4 for link to firmware upgrade. Maybe my blue has turned to invisible ink. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lfcrule1972 Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 What ?? Who said that ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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