Buffer recovery problem

[mill0358]

I recently switched from using nero to imgburn from the advice of a friend but now i ran into a issue. When i burn disc on 8x speed i will get into maybe 10% of the burn and buffer drops down and burn has to slowdown and this happens all the time. I have checked ide controllers in system panel and made sure the settings were dma enabled. I just bought this burner so figured there shouldn't be anything wrong with it.

Here is one of my log files

11:43:42 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started!

I 11:43:42 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3)

I 11:43:42 Total Physical Memory: 1,572,336 KB - Available: 781,796 KB

I 11:43:42 Initialising SPTI...

I 11:43:42 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 11:43:43 Found 1 CD-ROM and 1 DVD

[LIGHTNING UK!]

'checking' and uninstalling/rebooting are two very different things.

 

Is the hdd on the same cable as your new drive?

 

Is the drive set to 'master' and on a decent 80 wire cable?

[mill0358]

'checking' and uninstalling/rebooting are two very different things.

 

Is the hdd on the same cable as your new drive?

 

Is the drive set to 'master' and on a decent 80 wire cable?

 

yeah i did the uninstall and reboot tip and i have two harddrives on the first controller and a cdrom and the burner on the second controller. I figure the wire cable should be good had the system for a year and some change. Also the burner(on master) is on the first connect chain and then the cdrom(slave). The burns start good with a buffer of 100% to 90% but when it gets 20 -25 % into the burn then thats when the buffer problems start, and the drive has to slow down for the buffer to catch up.

 

 ===============================================

Filter Driver Load Order - ImgBurn v2.4.2.0

===============================================

 

Upper Device Filter: redbook

Upper Class Filter: GEARAspiWDM

Device: CD/DVD-ROM Device

Lower Class Filter: PxHelp20

Lower Device Filter: [None Found]

 

Filter Name: redbook

File Name: C:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\redbook.sys

File Version: 5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2108)

File Description: Redbook Audio Filter Driver

Product Name: Microsoft

Edited December 25, 2008 by mill0358

[LIGHTNING UK!]

What's the CPU % usage at when you're burning?

 

It shouldn't be hard to get 20mb/s from your hdd - especially when it's an image file so something's obviously not right.

 

I assume you've tried defragging?

 

I'd also try removing the old cdrom from the system as these things have been known to slow the bus down compared to modern drives working on their own.

[mill0358]

When doing the discovery option when checking how the media i had was causing anything, it burned like it was supposed to like no buffer problems at all and burn was constant to max speed. If that worked okay what could be the problem from burning other image files.

 

Tried defragging more than once and with no other prog running the cpu barely puts up anything worth noticing

 

I 00:50:44 Operation Started!
I 00:50:44 Source File: -==/\/[DISCOVERY IMAGE]\/\==-
I 00:50:44 Source File Sectors: 2,295,104 (MODE1/2048)
I 00:50:44 Source File Size: 4,700,372,992 bytes
I 00:50:44 Source File Volume Identifier: DISCOVERY_IMAGE
I 00:50:44 Source File File System(s): None
I 00:50:44 Destination Device: [1:0:0] PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-116D 1.06 (F:) (ATA)
I 00:50:44 Destination Media Type: DVD+R (Disc ID: SONY-D21-00) (Speeds: 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x, 18x)
I 00:50:44 Destination Media Sectors: 2,295,104
I 00:50:44 Write Mode: DVD
I 00:50:44 Write Type: DAO
I 00:50:44 Write Speed: 12x
I 00:50:44 DVD+R Reserve Track: No
I 00:50:44 Link Size: Auto
I 00:50:44 Test Mode: No
I 00:50:44 OPC: No
I 00:50:44 BURN-Proof: Enabled
I 00:50:45 Filling Buffer... (40 MB)
I 00:50:45 Writing LeadIn...
I 00:51:04 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 2295103)
I 00:51:04 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 2295103)
I 00:56:28 Synchronising Cache...
I 00:56:29 Closing Track...
I 00:56:31 Finalising Disc...
I 00:56:44 Exporting Graph Data...
I 00:56:44 Graph Data File: C:\Documents and Settings\jlas\Application Data\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\PIONEER_DVD-RW_DVR-116D_1.06_THURSDAY-DECEMBER-25-2008_12-50_AM_SONY-D21-00_12x.ibg
I 00:56:44 Export Successfully Completed!
I 00:56:44 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:05:59
I 00:56:44 Average Write Rate: 14,167 KB/s (10.2x) - Maximum Write Rate: 17,610 KB/s (12.7x)

Edited December 28, 2008 by mill0358

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Discovery mode just burns from memory - you know that yeah?

 

As such, it must be a hdd read speed issue then... or at least it is when you're trying to 'write' to the dvd burner at the same time.

 

You could also try running process monitor (from sysinternals) and seeing which processes are performing file I/O on your machine. Maybe you'll spot something making a lot of drive accesses that really shouldn't be - like indexing or something.

[p200002]

Discovery mode just burns from memory - you know that yeah?

 

As such, it must be a hdd read speed issue then... or at least it is when you're trying to 'write' to the dvd burner at the same time.

 

You could also try running process monitor (from sysinternals) and seeing which processes are performing file I/O on your machine. Maybe you'll spot something making a lot of drive accesses that really shouldn't be - like indexing or something.

 

I agree with Lighting UK. When I copy files from my internal HDD to external HDD, I have similar issue. The burning process should proceed but at a lower speed.

Edited January 1, 2009 by p200002