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Jeff Lindstrom

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Since: May 23, 2004
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 11:18 am
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I just bought a 52X CD-Writer (Mad Dog Dominator, which shows up as an
Artec WRR-52X V1.16). With 48X TDK disks, I was recording at about 8-10X
(1400-1800 KB/sec) with both Roxio and Nero.

I have an old computer (850 MHz on a PC100 bus with 768 Megs of memory),
but my 7200 RPM disks are tested at around 4.8 MB/sec (via a Matrox tool
for determining video recording quality) which should be good for at least
24X.

The hard disks are on Primary and the CD-RW is the only drive on
Secondary. I have noticed that DMA is turned off for my hard disks and for
my CD-RW, but I do get the aformentioned speed even without it.

What can I do to speed things up?


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Dave112

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 12:11 am
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y>Subject: Why is my CD burner so slow?

you might want to try different media to burn on...that might be affecting your
speed.

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Surreal Killer

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2003 8:57 pm
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On 11 Jul 2003 21:11:02 GMT, racerx5410 DeleteThis @aol.comnojunk (Dave) wrote:

 >y>Subject: Why is my CD burner so slow?
 >
 >you might want to try different media to burn on...that might be affecting your
 >speed.


Also be sure the DMA option is turned on<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Surreal Killer

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2003 9:01 pm
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On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 08:18:37 GMT, Jeff Lindstrom
<j_r_lind.DeleteThis@adelphia.net> wrote:


 >
 > The hard disks are on Primary and the CD-RW is the only drive on
 >Secondary. I have noticed that DMA is turned off for my hard disks and for
 >my CD-RW, but I do get the aformentioned speed even without it.
 >
 > What can I do to speed things up?

Turn DMA on. That's the one biggest culprit when it comes to "slow"
drives. Without DMA turned on, CDRW's usually max out well under 20x.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Jeff Lindstrom

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2003 9:31 am
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racerx5410 RemoveThis @aol.comnojunk (Dave) wrote:

 > y>Subject: Why is my CD burner so slow?
 >
 > you might want to try different media to burn on...that might be
 > affecting your speed.

My media is TDK. I wouldn't think that would be the problem.


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(Msg. 6) Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2003 9:36 am
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Surreal Killer <not.here.RemoveThis@all.now> wrote:

 > On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 08:18:37 GMT, Jeff Lindstrom
 ><j_r_lind.RemoveThis@adelphia.net> wrote:

  >> The hard disks are on Primary and the CD-RW is the only drive on
  >>Secondary. I have noticed that DMA is turned off for my hard disks
  >>and for my CD-RW, but I do get the aformentioned speed even without
  >>it.
  >>
  >> What can I do to speed things up?
 >
 > Turn DMA on. That's the one biggest culprit when it comes to "slow"
 > drives. Without DMA turned on, CDRW's usually max out well under 20x.

DMA is turned on for all the drives (HDs and CD-RW). I just noticed Sync
Data Transfer setting for the CD-RW and turned that on. Will have to burn
another CD and try it out.


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Ignacio Merlo

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(Msg. 7) Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 4:04 pm
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Try to burn with Nero Burning Rom 5.5

Best Regards

Ignacio Merlo
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Jeff Lindstrom <j_r_lind.TakeThisOut@adelphia.net> escribió en el mensaje de noticias
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 > racerx5410.TakeThisOut@aol.comnojunk (Dave) wrote:
 >
  > > y>Subject: Why is my CD burner so slow?
  > >
  > > you might want to try different media to burn on...that might be
  > > affecting your speed.
 >
 > My media is TDK. I wouldn't think that would be the problem.
 >
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