I don't know what has happened to my burner, but when using DVD decryptor and/or nero I am not burning at the speed I choose. My burner is capable of burning DVD-R @ 16x. When I select to start my burn I choose the 4x setting, but I am burning at approximately 1.4x as it is taking about a 1 hour to burn the DVD. Burner- Sony DRU-710A, firmware BYX4 Media- Fuji DVD-R 8x Software- DVD Decryptor and Nero Is there some type of default setting that I can't find through windows device manager that I am missing? Help?
Make sure that your drive settings did not get changed from DMA to PIO, you can do this through your device manager. Below is a guide that will show you :~) http://home.comcast.net/~bbmayo/DMA.html
Drive settings are in DMA, still no worky. I did recently update to the new firm ware. Maybe I should roll back to the previous firm ware and see what happens.
Update: I got in touch with Sony customer support and after all of the basic troubleshooting questions (firm ware, DMA mode, etc.) I was told to do the following: 1- Update my Nero software (of which I don't use. i'm a dvd decryptor.). 2- Re-assign my Sony DRU-710A drive to be secondary master (I had initially installed it as a slave drive to the dvd-rom drive and had no problems with burning DVD+/- R in that configuration up until 3 weeks ago. gotta love those fault isolation prep procedures they use). 3- Scan/Defrag the hard drives (not a bad idea, but seriously doubt it will resolve my slow dvd writing issue and I did this about 1 month ago.) I performed 1 and 2 and tried to burn a DVD-R (Verbatim 8x) at 4x, but the write rate never got higher than 1.4x. Problem still exists. Last night, before bed, I kicked off the defrag process on the hard drive and let that run over night. I have not had a chance to see if that worked (unlikely). Looks like I be on the phone with customer support again this afternoon in hopes of diagnosing the problem. Lucky for me the drive is under warranty until Feb 2006.
I had a problem very similar to yours and was seriously considering putting my foot through it, but i had a last ditch attempt at cleaning the lens on my DVD burner (I used the cleaning disk that came with the kids PS2!) now back to burning at full speed! Maybe give it a try, not guaranteeing it will work, but worth a go
I am watching with great interest, I have the same problem only reversed. My HP300n burner was replaced under warranty with a Dynex DVD RW IDE 16X VA187. I found that Decrypter no longer was able to control the burning speed I chose, same with Nero. You can set the controls to 2X and it always burns at 4X on both. Decrypter will have the burning speed at 2X when it starts the Log file, but says burned at 4X at the end. I am using Taiyo Yuden 4X media and the good news is only 1 coaster out of about 15, not correct but I can live with that. I was under the impression you did not want to burn 4X media at 4X. Nero said the new drive is on the secondary IDE channel, whatever that is. My settings are still DMA and the firmware updated to the latest. Wish you the best of luck, would like to send you my extra 2X if I could.
Update: Received a work order and shipping number from Sony and am sending the drive back to them when my new back-up/replacement/2nd DVD burner, an NEC ND-3520A 16X Double Layer DVD±RW, shows up. I purchased the NEC 3520A for $50 and what I hear is that it’s as good a burner as the Sony DRU-710A I am having repaired. I’ll repost how the Sony drive performs when I get it back.
My NEC 3520A burner came in, I installed it and had the same problem. I'll re-format my C: drive and see what happens.
I had the exact same problem with an AOpen drive,I tried everything and the only cure was to reformat and reinstall xp.Hope this helps someone..Happy Burnning..
@hoot owl if your media is 4x then it will burn at 4x even though decrypter is set to burn at 1x ,2.4xetc... if the disc or burner can only do certain speed s it will find the closest compatable speed just like you can't tell a frog to fly well I guess you can tell it all day long the point is it will never fly. you can however tell the frog to hop any way's I think that analogy went wrong some where. I have a sneaky suspension gajake15 might be try dl media if I recall correctly the only speed for dl not that long ago was 1x although I'm quite often wrong. all this reformatting drive c defrag and what not although there are benefits that may affect backing up dvd' sI dont see any direct correlation to burn speeds
I have found with TY media that there are burners that will burn it faster than the listed speed. My Plextor will burn a 4x TY at 8x if I let it, and my HP will go as high as 6x on it. Your burner probably is doing the same and burning a TY at 4x is fine.
I have gotten nothing but good burns since the beginning and it is very possible that the norton antivirus may have decided to run in the middle of that burn. I was always taught if it ain't broke don't fix it. Guess the control freak in me wanted to know why. Thanks to everyone for your help. Hope gajake15 has found sucess.
I never did reformat my C: drive. I added a WD 160GB ATA/100 hard drive a few months back for DVD backup, home movies etc. After I installed the new drive, I began writing all of my video images to and from the new hard drive and it took me a few days to notice the slow burn speeds. I went back to writing images to and from my C: drive and images burned at appropriate speeds from there. For some reason, my new hard drive does not transfer data as fast as expected (it is in DMA mode).
