Somebody save me from throwing my computer against a wall. I have a system that I use for dvd duplication. It has a Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H motherboard, with an AMD Core 6400+ (64-bit) processor running at 3.21GHz. The OS is XP Home. I have 4 gigabytes of Crucial RAM installed. I have (4) Samsung SH-S223l SATA dvd burners installed, and a 500GB IDE Western Digital hard drive. When I burn one or two dvds simultaneously, burn times are normal, about 6-7 minutes at 12x. When I attempt to burn 4 discs at the same time, it takes over 90 minutes. This shouldn't be. It's very frustrating. I have tried versions 6, 7, and 9 of Nero Burning Rom. Nothing changes. Can anyone shed some light on this?
I assume you have tried burning two discs at a time with all of the drives to make sure that the problem is not in just one of them?
We have the answer.. very well put and easy to understand XD http://forums.afterdawn.com/t.cfm/f-77/why_is_it_taking_90_minutes_to_burn_a_dvd-791148/#4789039
Thread teleported to relevant forum. I've always burnt with 2/3/4 burners in Nero doing multiple concurrent burns, from IDE/SATA hard drives (though i currently have 6 SATA hard drives and loads of IDE drives via USB 2.0) with IDE/SATA burners and USB 2.0 burners and combinations of all the above, with no problems at all. An easy test is to try ripping 4 DVD's at once, see how that works..maybe the hard drive is struggling a tad to keep those burners busy.. It might be worth checking DMA on that IDE drive. It's a long shot but can't think what else to suggest at the moment.
Yes. I tried burning every possible combination of two burners simultaneously. They all burned with no problem. I also tested each one individually, and they all performed fine as well. The problem is with the 4
Where is the solution? This link just takes me back to another thread I started, about this same problem. Could it be you posted the wrong link, or am I just missing something?
Thanks. I searched and discovered that dma is already enabled. Too bad though. That seemed like it could really be the solution. But that's not the problem. Thanks anyway.
