Re: drive speed

Look in device manager at the IDE drive controller that the burner is
connected to. Is the drive set to run in Ultra DMA or DMA mode or in POI
mode? DMA is what you want. POI mode is very slow.

If you put in a defective CD or DVD, one with many read errors, the
operating system will "drop" the speed down (incrementally) until the disk
can be read competently. This drop down is permanent.

In device manager, uninstall the IDE controller for the burner (either IDE 1
or 2). Reboot. The controller will be re-detected on startup and everything
should be back to normal! If you again have problems reading a disk the same
thing may/will occur.

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Regards,

Richard Urban

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"Scar" <NoBody@home> wrote in message
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> Few days ago I noticed my LG dvd burner (x12) is much slower.
> Using different brand's disks my max burning speed is x4 for dvd's and
> CD's x8.
> All disks are speed rated at least x8 for dvd , and x48 for cd's.
> What program should I use to test it ? Roxio 7.0 doesn't have any
> utilities to do it .
> I did not install any software lately , and didn't changed hardware set
> up.
>
> Thanks for any suggestion.
> Chuck
>


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