EDIT: PROBLEM RESOLVED!!! THIS SHOULD BE ENTERED IN A GUIDE! The ide cable that was hooked up to my Hard Drive was not a high speed ide cable. I bought a new high speed ide cable and burned a dvd in about 6 minutes, my computer also works faster than before. I would have never resolved this issue if I didn't investigate and research so much, narrow it down to cables then research ide cables. Hi I recently installed a sony dru-820a...it is burning very slow. I just installed aspi because it was not installed/corrupt. Changed DMA (I think) and it is still slow. I hooked it up to where my cd-rw drive was, just took out the drive and plugged this one in the same way...can't seem to figure out why it is going so slow.here are 6 pictures I took of the inside set-up http://img285.imageshack.us/img285/5817/img10812pk.jpg http://img485.imageshack.us/img485/2008/img10820ki.jpg http://img485.imageshack.us/img485/8016/img10839ey.jpg http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/3186/img10840rb.jpg http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/8691/img10852gq.jpg http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/3870/img10866yu.jpg
Got a little lost in the lengthy log. Maybe others can read it better than me. Current firmware for the DRU-820a is 1.0b, do you have it installed? How many programs are running in the background? You may need to close some. I have heard that Nero versions beyond 6.6.0.18 are buggy. I think I saw .19 on your log. The .18 version came with my DRU-820a and it works fine for me.
Yes, my firmware that was on the drive when I installed it was 1.0b. I run 0 programs in the background while burning aside from anydvd and kaspersky antivirus (but not scanning...just idle). I have intel application accellerator...I don't know if that causes any problem. I have really been going nuts with this, I am researching like crazy, and have done all that I can to try to fix this. I'm stumped.
Check and make sure your jumper settings are correct for the drive. Look at the old drive and make sure the new one is set the same way.
yes they are correct, I forgot to change the settings and it caused my computer not to boot, so I looked at my old drive and remembered I had to switch it. So I switched it to the middle pin (slave) which is what my old drive (cd-rw) was, which came in my computer like that.
ok, so it turns out my drive was sharing an ide cable with my hard drive, the HD being master the drive being slave. I took an ide cable from an old computer and put it in my computer hooking the burner up directly to the motherboard. Everything works...now will an old ide cable be ineffcient and can a new ide cable cause better burn/transfer rates? If so what ide cables should I look for?
I just bought a Sony DRU820A, and had some problems as well. I bought it to replace my LG4040B, because the drawer keeps sticking shut. On the Sony, I set the jumper the same as it was on the LG: Master. When I booted the computer, AnyDVD told me that the DVD I had in the drive could not be read, and it wouldn't play in PowerDVD either. I looked through the manual, which said I might have to disable DMA transfer, so I did, changing it to PIO mode. Worked, but very slow burns. So after mucking around with it. I decided to make my BenQ 1620 the master, and the Sony I set to Cable select. Again, worked, but slow burns, this time I was able to use DMA Mode 2. Tried again, making the Sony the Slave, now it works fine. Does anyone know why I can't get this thing to work as the Master?
It is probably because you are running two drives on the same IDE cable. I am running my HD as master, and my sony dru-820a on a seperate ide cable to the motherboard as master. I wouldn't really recommend running 2 dvd/cd drives on the same cable(or atleast expect top performance from them).
The sony drive may require more data transfer speed/resources. So just take out the old drive and hook up the sony on one ide cable directly from drive to mother board, make sure dma is enabled, check to make sure your aspi layer is not corrupt.
