Hi, Ive got two DVR-111's, they are both the same, one is a black one and one is a beige one, but they are both exactly the same. I use nero to burn and one of my drive's will burn at a max of 40x and the other only burns at either 4x or 10x. Can anyone suggest any reason for this?? I have just been on pioneers website and updated the firmware's on both of the drives to 1.29. Cheers
Check they are both in DMA mode, see this guide... http://my.afterdawn.com/alkohol/blog_entry.cfm/231/dmaissues
By the way i normal copy to both the CD's at the same time. I have one of the burners on primary and other on secondary ide. I checked the link you sent re: DMA, and i have nvidia nforce3 parrallel ata controller. Both my burners are set to : Ultra DMA4 - Ultra66.
Are the jumpers @ the back to set MASTER and the other one SLAVE. So, the one on Pirimary IDE is MASTER and the one on Secondary is SLAVE. See this.. http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6603_7-5118840-4.html or this... http://peripherals.about.com/od/cddvddrivesburners/ss/installcddrive_3.htm
Thats correct yes. I have 2 Hard Drives and Two Burners. I have a hard drive and a burner on each IDE, and i just leave all jumpers set to "Cable select" so that the position on the cable selects whether they are master or slave. I have the Burners on Master and the HD's on Slave. I dont think it makes a difference what is master what is slave.... does it?? Cheers GaZ
Yeah, otherwise I wouldn't have said. It can affect performance of your drives if they're not set up right.
I'd say you have it like this... IDE 1: MASTER = DvD Drive SLAVE = (Secondary) HDD IDE 2: MASTER = (Main) HDD SLAVE = DvD Drive Try that ^^ Edit: If you have a Dell PC, then put the SLAVEs to CABLE SELECT. It's just how Dell PCs work.
Hey zebadee! Nice to see you posting here still. And yeah, to be honest, I think most drives perform better set as MAster.
Hi Bit out of it for a while. But back now. I seem to recall that Pioneer actually recommended drive set to Master (as do Plextor). In this case the fact that the drive set to master works at full capacity & the other set to slave doesn't. Would support this.;-)
Yeah my current config has both of the burners as master on both the ide's. Does this mean that my main hd with the o/s on it is performing bad cos it is set to slave??
