I've recently built a new computer and had high expectations but I've been very disappointed with the new dvd writer. I bought a Liteon 24x DVD/CD writer, with a SATA interface. When it starts there is always a couple of seconds delay (which often freezes the computer)like it's taking it's time to kick in. I've just used CDBurnerXP to burn a 1.86 gig DVD speed x16 and it took 20 minutes and 55 seconds - that's got to be excessive? I did have Nero 9, which I was equally unimpressed with, and it's got such a bad rep I decided to try some open source/freeware and see how that performed. Is this right, do I need to lower my expectations, or have I done something wrong? Any help would be much appreciated
I can't address that problem specifically. I had something similar with a new PC when I added an IDE hard drive as a data drive. The existing setup was for SATA 1 and 2 to be used for a SATA HDD and a SATA burner. I found the IDE drive was set for 'Multi word DMA 2' where before it was Ultra DMA. Since the bios did not address it I ended up moving the SATA HDD and burner and from connectors 1 and 2 to 5 and 6. My IDE drive now shows as Ultra DMA.
thanks for the response attar... although to be honest I don't really understand it lol I've always had ide drives before, easy master, slave - master, master - slave. This is the first time i've used SATA, so I suppose it means I'm going to have to spend some time reading up and understanding them and I'll just have to deal with these crap speeds till I do. Even with my old gear I've never had to wait 20 minutes for a DVD to burn!
All I did was move the cables that connected to the motherboard (not the power cables that are part of the power harness) to different SATA connectors. I went into Hardware Manager and looked at the DVD drives, found the SATA burner and got the channel number. Then I checked the channel and found the burner set as DMA 5 I would expect your burner to be the same or better - perhaps someone else will chime in to confirm.
Nice one - that was really easy to understand In Device Manager i haven't got any ATA channels - I've got 2 primary IDE channels 2 secondary IDE channels 2 standard dual channle PCI IDE controllers DVD drive location is 0 (0) I have another IDE DVD drive location Bus Number 0, Target ID 0, LUN 0 So don't I have any SATA controllers installed? When I was installing the operating sytem, it asked for drivers and I don't have any on a floppy, even though I've still got the drive, I don't have any disks. But I thought the mobo disc with drivers would install them...
I would have thought the W7 installation disk would take care of any drivers. Try posting in the Hardware Forum at Videohelp. http://forum.videohelp.com/
