DVD Burner stuck at .9x

[fortune82]

[qanda]This thread is about the LG GH22NP20, Black. Click here to see full specs[/qanda]Well, I’m not sure when this started, but whenever I burn anything, my burner only goes up to .9x and stays there. The buffer is constantly filling and emptying.

My first thoughts are that SecuRom did this, considering they suck at everything. Is there a way to get my drive back to normal without removing SecuRom (I hate it, but my games need it).

[vroom]

Hi fortune82, you can check your dma settings, maybe it’s in pio-mode instead of udma4.

[fortune82]

Forgot to include that. I made them all UDMA a few months back after seeing this issue on this forum. That made no difference.

ALSO ImageBurn log attached.

ImgBurn Log.txt (4.05 KB)

[troy512]

lets do it again but go about it as suggested by LUK!.

FAQ - FAQ

Problem:
You’re burning at slow speeds. ‘Slow’ typically being no more than 2x - even on higher rated media.

Answer:
Well, it could be a couple of things…

1. Your drive is slowing the burn down on purpose so you don’t create a coaster. This is because it has determined you’re using crappy media.

2. You dont have DMA enabled on the drive / IDE channel. (This is the most common cause of slow reads/writes)
   To check your DMA settings, go into Device Manager and look in the IDE Controllers branch. If you bring up the properties box on each of the channels (Primary and Secondary) you should see a tab where it lets you change between PIO and DMA mode.
   The above applies to Windows 2000, XP etc. On a Windows 9x machine, you’ll need to look at the properties for the drive itself under the ‘CDROM Drives’ branch. You should see a ‘DMA’ checkbox in there somewhere!

You might also like to read this Microsoft Knowledge Base Article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=817472

Important:
Windows XP will often get confused and report that a drive IS running in DMA mode when in reality, it’s not. To fix this, Uninstall the IDE/ATA Controller (NOT the Channels!!!) from under the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers branch (again in Device Manager) and reboot your PC. Windows will ‘find’ it again when it boots back up. DMA will be enabled by default.

You should also check that DMA is enabled and active within the system BIOS screen. That’s the screen you access by pressing DEL, F2 etc when the machine first boots up. You normally have to enable it for each device connected to the IDE bus - it’s not a single setting to enable / disable it.
Setting it to ‘Auto’ is the best bet - rather than DMA 5, 4… 1, PIO 4, 3…1 etc.

[fortune82]

That did help. While it is going much faster (7.2x) before all this occured it would get up to 15x-16x

EDIT: Just burnt another small DVD and its going 12x. Will burn another to see if it improves again.

EDIT 2: Yeah, back up to 15x. Thanks for the help!