IDE CD/RW makes system hang

[nikolas78]

I have a problem regarding my IDE CD/RW, the CD/RW is on the same IDE cable as the CDROM but when I burn a cd, the system hangs and operates as if there is hardly any RAM at all when I have 256mb of RAM on my system. I had a look at the performance tab in the task manager and the RAM seems fine but the CPU always fluctuates from 99% to 30% or less.

I can't pin point the problem, can anyone help?

 

[win13]

first off if u always burn cd to cd it is best to have the cdrom and the cdrw on seperate ide's, best if u have a controller card just to put ur hard drives on, but in my experience a hard drive on a controller card lacks performance. but u should always burn at half the speed of ur cdrom drive ie(CDRW 24x CDROM 48x). it is always best to copy to the harddrive then to the burner. and make sure u have the latest updates for ur burning software. ohh and if ur burning a disk that can't be copied at all, it may make ur system hang. hope this was of help.