S Glasoe wrote:

On Wednesday 17 May 2006 12:57 pm, Morten Holmstrup wrote:

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Hi,

I have a 16x dvd burner, but it only manages to burn at <4. I've tried different media, and different applications with the same result, and I don't get any error messages.

Any ideas?

thanks! Morten

www.CDFreaks.com. Check your drive's firmware and see if they have a newer one listed and what benefits you may get from it.

Are you using a known good and a good quality IDE cable for the drive? It may benefit from an 80-pin versus 40-pin IDE cable.

Stan

Are you using K3b? I found that unless I asked it to test the speed of the disk in the drive that it would tend to default to a lower level. I find it also helps to have a memory cache of at least 80 megs and on my machine, I use 300 megs because I have a fair amount of free memory. Another limit on disk copying is where the iso image is. If you have a faster hard drive, you would prefer to have the iso image on that drive. Good luck Ralph Ellis

Some burners do not support dma access. My system would give me all sorts of fits and locking up when turning it on for my burner. I even think it says some where in the documentation to be careful about using it on optical drives. On 5/17/06 3:55 PM, "Ken Schneider" wrote:

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 19:57 +0200, Morten Holmstrup wrote:

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Hi,

I have a 16x dvd burner, but it only manages to burn at <4. I've tried different media, and different applications with the same result, and I don't get any error messages.

Any ideas?

Turn DMA on for the drive. Look in YaST hardware where to set this.