Slow Burn/Read speed on my M65

Hi

I'm hoping someone can help me with my dvd drive. Its a tsst DVD+-RW TS-L632D and problems began only recently. I use my laptop mainly for video editing but lately if I try to burn/read/rip dvd's it becomes extremely slow, working less than 1x speed. I've done the obvious by reinstalling drivers etc., using different software etc. but to no avail. I want to burn off a documentary I did but I can't wait over 1 hour for every disc. Really desperate and really annoyed. Also I don't want to do a system restore as I've software installed that I really don't want to change.

Any help would be extremely grateful.

 

Make sure the disks you are using are rated for the speed of the drive (i.e. match 8x disks with an 8x drive).

BTW, what is the speed of your drive supposed to be?

 

I may have found something else: DMA may be disabled.

EDIT: TRY THIS FIRST ( Link)

This is from the same thread from below. The guy had a dell that had DMA disabled. This is a program (provided by dell) that will enable it.

I think you can trash the rest of the text below. That program should work. I need you to post back so that I know you saw my edits. Say something like "Yo dawg, I say your edits".

*Read my post then go to the link*

Check out this link: Link

Read this forum thread. It is very technical but there is a post by Arachne that has a link in it to some instructions that may fix your problem. Read the entire tread first, see if it fits what you are talking about and then go back to the beginning and follow the instructions if you feel that they fit your symptoms.

 

Cheers for the help. I think its back up to speed. Tried ripping one of MY DVD's and I was getting speeds of 2,000 kb/s. Would that be right for an 8x speed dvd drive? I'm all out of blank DVD's so I'll attempt a burn later.

 

Hey reidyg,

Just curious: what exactly solved your problem?

From your post it seems that I have the exact same symptoms with this darn TS-L632D drive, and from forum searches it seems that this drive is annoying a hell of a lot of people.

Symptoms:
- Very slow read/write speeds, eg. taking 6+ hours to install battlefield 2 off ONE DVD, taking 2+ hours to install a ~1Gb application off ONE CD.
- The drive dissapears from windows explorer intermittently, resfusing to read CDs/DVDs inserted. Requires reboot to get it going again.

Specs:
- Asus A8Js with duo 2.0 GHz and 1 GB RAM
- Running Vista Home Premium with most recent updates via live updater
- The TS-L632D is running on ATA Channel 1. Channel 1 is running on Ultra DMA Mode 2.
- The TS-L632D driver is the default: 6.0.6000.16386


I'm looking at a few avenues right now:
- Flashing firmware, http://support.dell.com/support/dow...1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=32&fileid=193445
- Uninstall/Reinstall the DVD drive
- Modifying the registry to hopefully fix the 'phantom drive' problem. I suspect the issues may be inter-related (however this is an XP fix, not a Vista fix) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060

What worked for you??

Cheers,
Speiro

 

Hey, can you post this is the Asus forum. The fix that I gave him was specifically for Dell Computers.

Here is the link to the Asus Forum here at NotebookReview.
Link


Make a new thread, the people there will be able to help you better.

In the mean time, try and reinstall drivers to your DVD drive.

 

I had similar problems with the TS-L632M a few months back. I got onto the Samsung ODD support and we concluded that it wasn't burning some media properly and then was tripping up during Nero's verification. XP is set to put the interface into PIO mode after a few timeout errors. The TS-L632M was replaced and the new one has given no problems.

The easiest way (at least for the standard Intel controller) to clear the PIO mode problem is to go into Device Manager, open up the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller, check which IDE channel is in PIO mode then uninstall it. Then go to the top of the list in Device Manager, right click and select Detect new hardware.

Or you can try using (at your own risk) the attached ResetDMA script I was sent by Samsung support.

TS-L632D is now at firmware SC04. You can see if the Live Update works with your version of this ODD. The updated firmware might fix the burning problems.

John

 

Will do LD

 

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