Registry Buffers?

[CaulX]

Hello,

I'm using windows 2k service pack 3. My hard drives are attatched a Promise 133 TX IDE Adapter card. My motherboard is a Abit BE6 Version 1. It has onboard Ultra ATA 66. This cannot be disabled in the bois. My CD Burner is a Plextor 40x12x40. I have 3 hard drivers. A Maxtor 6e040lo, and some maxtor 20 gig drive. My boot drive is a WD200BB. A 20 gig 7200 RPM western digital Drive.

The problem is when I burn a on the fly from my Maxtor drive, I can only burn no faster than 16x. If I try, The buffer from for my Burner empties and then I have to wait for it to rebuild then it burns a bit more, empties then starts to burn again. I'm using Nero to burn. I will soemtimes get buffer underrun. THis seems a little impossible but it happens. My Burner is set UltraDMA so that's working correctly.

I believe that there is something wrong with the buffer information between the IDE Card and the actually mainboard. Is there anyway that I can increase the buffer values. I would gladly sacrifice RAM for being able to burn at 40x. I hope someone will be able to answer my question and I hope I've provided enough information.

 

[Wirdo]

I think your problem is the access speed of your Harddrive the burner try taking info faster then it can sent. Those drives support ATA 133, but your board limits it to ATA 66.