i bought a new sony dvd 16x burner and it takes 3 hours to burn a dvd. i also have a liteon 8x burner and it burns a dvd in about 20 minutes the liteon is the master and the sony is the slave what can i do to speed this thing up?
3+ hours to burn! Sounds like your sony in in PIO mode. Make sure your dms's are enabled. That litey controller may be in pio mode. Here's a link to show you how to check: http://www.dvdplusvideo.com/dvdguide005.html Double check your jumpers on your drives/connectors. Did that new sony drive come with a new IDE ribbon? Some of the newer drives come with a 40 pin/80 wire IDE ribbon which is recommended to use. The older ribbons are 40 wire and can slow you down.. What's your system specs and OS? Tell us your configuration: Primary master/slave-cable select and Secondary Master/slave-maybe cable select. Some pcs will call for cable select instead of slave.
