Drive's burning speed

[superman217]

Yes its a dell comp, I have never messed around in bios before. So not to comfy on it. But i might try it I could also call dell and tell them my computer broke and I dont know wth happend Im gonna pull my cd drive right now though be back in a bit

[Chewy]

post this screenshot from neroinfo tool

[superman217]

This is after I just yanked my cd-rw drive, and changed some info in bios.

Good news is I re-checked DMA and not only do device 0 & device 1 say DMA they both bumped up from UDMA 2 to UDMA 5

[Chewy]

just make sure all your jumpers are right if you put that drive back in

[superman217]

I almost set the jumper wrong but found info on the drive and set it up right LoL

[Chewy]

durn dell and cable select and funky bios settings

[NightTran]

all the extra sata hard drives I add in, have to go to bio to turn them on other wise window will not reg. the drives

[superman217]

I added a western dig eide hard drive no problems. except I payed too much for it.

[superman217]

with the new set up i backed up my copy of kiss of the dragon whole proccess 2hrs 8mins burn time 15mins thats at 4x 5,540kb/s

[superman217]

I hope i dont get in trouble im not tryign to bump my own post or anything but since I pulled that drive my whole computer runs so much faster, is that normal?

[Chewy]

might have been dying and pulling too much power?

[superman217]

Hmm guess i will find out when I install it in my moms comp thxs as always chewy

[cincyguy]

Slow double layer burning with HP dvd740e

I have an HP dvd740e external burner. It is connected via USB 2.0. It is rated at up to 16X for DVD5 and up to 8X for DL. I typically can burn a full DVD5 in about 6-7 minutes at speeds around 12X. But whenever I burn a DL, I seem to max out at 2.4X and it takes 40-45 minutes. Since I'm getting good speeds on the DVD5, I figure it can't be my USB connection, or PC that's the bottleneck. The Discs I'm using are Verbatim DVD+R DL 8.5GB 2.4X(Up to 8X). I'm wondering if my problem is the media and that something special needs to be done to achieve the parenthetical 8X speeds. The literature suggested that this speed could be achieved on a high speed burner which I assume is what I have since it is rated at up 8X for this type of media. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

[locoeng]

The DL Verbatims you are using are the best around, I wouldnt consider another brand at this point. There could be something else amiss that is causing the slowdown...is your firmware Lcurrent for the HP(Lite-ON) drive? Have you tried another USB cable to see if the one you are using is defective?

[Chewy]

I assume is what I have since it is rated at up 8X for this type of media.

only if your firmware supports it, that's 2.4X media

what's your firmware?

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?lc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=502022&dlc=en&os=228

HP support is lousy for drives, they name them the same and don't update often if at all, they don't make them

(Up to 8X)

only with the right drive and firmware