Slow Burning Help

Hey, long time lurker first time poster. i have a dell inspiron 640m. When i burn cd's and dvd's they burn extremly slow and can take almost an hour to burn. I have seen a few posts on other forums about turning the DMA on. I have gone to my device manager and looked in my cd/dvd drive and there is no option to turn DMA on. I have a sony q58a dvd+-rw dw.

When i go to my ide ata/atapi controlers section and i click on my primary and secondary ide channel it is set to DMA if available. I ran a nero infotool and it told me my DMA was off. Is there anyway to turn it on, or is there something else i should be trying to fix.

Any help i can get would be great. Thanks

 

I've been having similar problems with my TS-L532M dropping into PIO mode. It happens to me when Nero is verifying the burn.

The fix to restore DMA is quite easy. In Device Manager uninstall the Secondary IDE channel then reboot. Windows will redetect the optical drive and the IDE channel and should reenable DMA (this may work without rebooting using the Add new Hardware in Control Panel after doing the uninstall - I must try next time).

Samsung support have suggested to me to change the value of a timing mode parameter in the registry. I have to try some more burning to see if it is a fix for the cause of the problem.

John

 

John, thank you very much for your help, burning is now working just fine. Thanks again

 

1. I have now ascertained that there is no need to reboot. Just detect new hardware after uninstalling the secondary IDE channel.

2. I am starting to suspect the latest version of Nero. My interface drops into PIO during verification, but the disks will copy much faster and without any problems.

John

 

I found a tool on Dell's support site inside of one of the wizards. The name of the wizard is "Choppy Video or Audio, or Lines or Blocks Seen When Playing DVD Movie [ Dell™ Latitude™, Inspiron™, Mobile Precision™ Workstations ]".

I found on the page saying to enable DMA, and below that it says if you've selected DMA and it is stuck in PIO, to download the tool.

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...aseid=R53986&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=63977

I used it once, and it has solved that problem, with no more issues happening. I have the Inspiron 6400

 

I'm having the same problem.

Just curious: my drive is DVD-RW 8x. How long should it take to burn a full DVD?

I have a sony q58a dvd+-rw dw.

What was the final solution?

One last question: Which would you suggest using to burn: DVD-R or DVD+R disks?
Thanks!

 

A single layer DVD should take about 8 mins in total at 8x. That includes lead in and finalisation.

 

8min, including lead and final?!

Mine takes about double that, and I'm using Verbatim 8x DVD-R. Is the media the problem, or is it still the drive?

Thanks in advance!

 

On a desktop drive yes, but on a laptop drive no. You must remember laptop drives are made with size and power consumption in mind. Laptop drives burn only the very outer edge of the disc at 8x whereas a desktop starts at 4-6x and quickly ramps up to 8x resulting in a much faster burn time for desktop drives. The fastest laptop drive I have seen is a NEC ND-6500 coming in at 10.5 minutes using the very high quality Taiyo Yuden discs. I did seen the LG 4082N come in under 11 as well. Typically, full 8x burns come in the 12-14 minute range on laptop drives.