Problem: Dvd burner is extremely slow

qwert916 · Newbie Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 2

I have two burning drives on my computer, a Samsung CD-r/rw sw-248 F (my cd burner) and a VOM-12E48x (dvd burner). After I"ve installed blindwrite, I got the bug where it won't read the a new cd I put in but I searched the forums and fixed that. Now I have another problem that I couldn't find a fix for. Before I installed Blindwrite, my burning speeds were fine but now my dvd burner can't read/write at above 1.4x. Sometimes it's so slow that it takes 5 minutes just to burn around 200mb of data. I've tried removing the patin-coufin driver but it still doesn't help. Any ideas to try and fix this? Oh yeah my other drive is also extremley slow. I also dual boot and burner works fine in Windows ME (I'm currently on XP w/ sp2).

SirQUK · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 8:51 am Post subject:

Hi qwert916 and welcome to our forums. it sounds like you need to make sure DMA is enabled for your drive. Please follow the information provided on this link.

qwert916 · Newbie Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 2

Thanks for trying to help but it was already set like that. Againk, this only happened after I installed blindwrite.

lapinou · VSO Official support Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 256

uninstall blindwrite to prove your theory, but I bet it will not change anything.

lancelot · Newbie Joined: 01 Jul 2006 Posts: 1

Thanks gang, turns out I was having the same problem. My burner refused to go over 1.4x (ish)...turns out when I looked at the IDE channel in the device manager, PIO mode was enabled, after enabling DMA mode, I rebooted, Winxp put it back to PIO mode, so I uninstalled the IDE channel, and rebooted, when I went to look DMA mode was enabled, and now I burn at full speed (8X for the current media that I use)! Here I thought the burner was garbage! This DMA mode has also speeded up the access time when I put a CD or DVD into the HP DVD 740i by leaps and bounds...it used to practically freeze windows explorer...not anymore! Turns out it sped up the other device on that channel too (my primary hard drive, wowzers, here I thought my WD Raptor SATA HD was a garbage technology!? it was just my DMA problem!). Thanks gang (this message is posted all over technical forums on the internet for the purpose of educating others out there about there DMA problems with their burners).

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