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prepress_brillance_43 · #1 (**permalink**) 05-11-2005, 05:59 PM

I just bought an Iomega external disc drive. The two disc drives on my personal 1999 compaq presario 5000 :evil: finally burned out. Anyway, I have everything working fine but it will only burn audio at 2.5x speed. The drive is supposed to be 52x, the CD's I'm burning are 40x, so shouldn't it at least write at 40x, or does my ancient 901 Mhz processor speed keep it from writing faster? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

btw>Memorex has some really tight black CDR's on the market now for you music collectors...

gig0 · #2 (**permalink**) 05-11-2005, 08:26 PM

try this:

right click my computer/properties/hardware tab/device manager

under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, double click your Primary IDE Channel and under the Advanced settings tab, check to see if the transfer mode is set to DMA. If you see PIO, click the tab and set to "DMA mode if available". Do this for both devices and do the same thing for for Secondary IDE Channel as well.

Reboot and that should do it for you.

prepress_brillance_43 · #3 (**permalink**) 05-11-2005, 08:56 PM

Well at first it appeared to work because it recognized the 40x speed of the media, but upon burning, no such luck... 2.6x at best 2.9x :x thanks though, any other suggestions.

edit: you think it maybe has to do with my usb ports not being high speed ports. They are standard usb 2.0??.... since it's an external drive. :?: :?

rcmayor · #4 (**permalink**) 05-11-2005, 11:26 PM

I doubt very much that your 1999 model computer has USB 2.0, the speeds you are getting sound about right for USB 1. You should be able to pick up a USB 2.0 PCI card for pretty cheap. With that your speeds will be much better. What OS are you using? Windows 95 and the first Windows 98 didn't support USB 2.0 with out a special driver.

prepress_brillance_43 · #5 (**permalink**) 05-12-2005, 05:28 AM

ooohhh... I see. OK thanks. You are probably right. I am using XP Professional. Thanks for the help.

almaink · #6 (**permalink**) 05-12-2005, 09:41 AM

If your gonna rip music don't go to fast, some CD payers have issues with anything burned faster than 4x.

prepress_brillance_43 · #7 (**permalink**) 05-12-2005, 10:14 AM

I did not know that. Thanks. I'll keep aware of that.

jim_t · #8 (**permalink**) 05-17-2005, 08:16 PM

stay with the 8-tracks --- all this computer stuff is a fad - I know it!

prepress_brillance_43 · #9 (**permalink**) 05-18-2005, 05:19 AM

yea, with CD's maybe a fad. MP3 players like the iPod will soon shine brighter than the CD. I have already begun to catalog all of my like 400 CD's to MP3 files. Soon enough there will be car stereos with a usb or firewire port on the front, just insert 10GB flash drive and go.

almaink · #10 (**permalink**) 05-18-2005, 05:43 AM

Ah one better that the iPod or MP3 players in general is the MP3 CD in-car stereos. They pay normal CD's and MP3 encoded Cd's. I have MP3 CD's with over 1000 songs on them.