Plextor problem? 1

[edstout]

I have recently purchased a Plextor 40 12 40 Rewriter but have been having problems with burning. I have install Nero 5.5.7.3 that came with the drive but when I try burning at 24X (The speed of the CDs I've got) it runs both buffers down alot and takes around 9 mins to burn a CD. This is burning directly from a 7,200 HDD not another CDROM Drive, although the problem does arise from CDROM too. I have the CDROM and Plextor on the same IDE cable at present. When Nero completes it states that there were around 160 Buffer Unnder-runs avoided. What can I do to get the most out of my Burner? Any help appreciated!

 

[TerrySr]

Slow your burn speed down, and you will probably have less problems and make less coasters..

 

[edstout]

Thanks for that, but the thing is though that I didn't buy a 40X writer to write a 16X or 8X. I at least want to burn at 24X as I do alot of burning. (On the 24X disk I have). My computer shouldn't have any problems buring at 24X: Here's the spec:

ABIT KG7 RAID
AMD ATHLON 1200
512MB DDR RAM
IBM Deskstar 40GB (5400)
IBM Deskstar 40GB (7200)
Seagate 8.4GB
SoundBlaster 5.1
Ge-force 2 Titanium 64MB

Not a pile of junk so I recon it should be able to handle 24X. Any other ideas are very welcome.

Thanks in advance

Ed Stout

 

[pbxman]

Do you have DMA enablen on your Primary/Secondary IDE/ATAPI controllers? They should be enabled - do not use PIO mode. The settings are in device manager.
Pbxman
Systems Administrator

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[edstout]

Thanks for all your help.

Problem solved by selected DMA. My drive kept unchecking this box initially even after reboot but is now fine. Burning disks in 2 mins 30!!! Certainly can't complain at that!

Thanks again for your input!

Ed Stout