Harry Baules Posted May 5, 2008 Share Posted May 5, 2008 I you noticed on the log below I received a message that reads W 17:29:34 Waiting for buffers to recover... W 17:29:45 Waiting for hard disk activity to reach threshold level... The burn did complete and I verified it afterwards. But do you know why this message appeared? Is there something I can change in the settings to prevent this? I just want to be able to burn as smoothly as possible without any chance for errors. I received this message twice. One of the times I was burning with no other programs opened at all. I even rebooted the computer and went straight to imgburn. ; //****************************************\\ ; ImgBurn Version 2.4.1.0 - Log ; Friday, 02 May 2008, 17:56:56 ; \\****************************************// ; ; I 17:25:24 ImgBurn Version 2.4.1.0 started! I 17:25:24 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 17:25:24 Total Physical Memory: 514,116 KB - Available: 125,968 KB I 17:25:25 Initialising SPTI... I 17:25:25 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 17:25:25 Found 1 DVD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynthia Posted May 5, 2008 Share Posted May 5, 2008 Do you have more than one hard disk installed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Baules Posted May 5, 2008 Author Share Posted May 5, 2008 No just one. But I am on a network at work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted May 5, 2008 Share Posted May 5, 2008 That's a slimline drive so I assume you're using a laptop. Laptop hdd's are slower than desktop ones and so defragging is even more important than usual. Basically, if buffer recovery kicks in then it means the program couldn't fill its internal buffer quickly enough and that all comes down to the rate at which it can read from the hdd. Freeing up a bit more RAM wouldn't hurt either (or maybe upgrading to 1GB?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Baules Posted May 6, 2008 Author Share Posted May 6, 2008 It's a dell optiplex slim computer,not laptop, but i'm sure the same hold true. thanks for the information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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