Why has my burner all of a sudden been copying and burning slow?

For awhile all was fine then recently it had taken a long time to burn/copy stuff. Like it used to take me bout 2 hrs to coy & burn, now it has literally doubled in time. PLEASE HELP!!! I use DVD X Copy Platinum.

 

Sounds like your DMA got turned off.

The first thing to do is to right click on “My Computer”, and hit properties.


Click the hardware tab, then select Device manager.

Then find IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers, and click on your hardrive.

Click the advanced settings tab, then in the “Transfer Mode” box you should see “DMA If Available”. If you are seeing “PIO Only” then you need to click on the box and change this to “DMA If Available”.

Click the “OK” button to confirm.

Check your “Secondary IDE Channel”. For the same thing.

 

hi

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@ AxFactor

yes if you get i think it is 6 concecutive errors it will revert to PIO mode instead of DMA as mentioned above...

 

rebooting sloves that problem also most of the time anyway

 

I didn't know a reboot would fix that...

Learn something everyday..

@Rotary, Thanks!!

 

hi

for the DMA issue you need to uninstall the drivers in device manager then reboot... to get from PIO back to DMA

a reboot on its own will be good for clearing the ram out thats it..

 

which drivers, are their any specific?

 

hi

sorry i ment drives not drivers

then reboot

 

Here is a step by step guide.

http://home.comcast.net/~bbmayo/checking DMA.pdf

Hope that this helps.

cheers.