DVD burner taking too long

[cauzomb]

I've been trying to back up my photo's recently and noticed that instead of the usual 10-20 minutes of burn/verify time per DVD. The media is rated at 16x, I've been selecting 8x or 12x but it's it's still taking over 50 minutes to just burn the data to disc.

I checked my controller channel device 0 DVD tsst corp SH-182M, it says access mode multi-word DMA 2, not sure what it's supposed to be set at, the chipset is Nvidia NF4 ultra, drive is primary master and one device on that channel Any ideas on how to get this thing working up to speed?

[cauzomb]

Found out that primary channel in the BIOS was set to "none" instead of auto, I had it set like that to speed up the boot process. When I looked in device manager, the IDE controllers primary channel (device 0 "tsst corp" cd/dvd rom drive) was set to "let BIOS select transfer mode"

I changed the BIOS settings for primary channel to AUTO detect, then restarted. Now device manager shows that the primary channel device 0 CD/DVD rom drive has the access mode set to UDMA mode 2 ata33..

I'll try burning another disc like this and see what happens... If the new setting works to bring the burn speed back up, I'll try changing the BIOS settings for primary back to NONE, then go into device manager and uncheck (let BIOS select transfer mode) then set IDE primary device 0 to Ultra DMA 2 and retest another disc will let you know how it goes..

[cauzomb]

With BIOS primary master set to auto detect, system/hardware/device manager/IDE controller/primary device 0 having "let BIOS select transfer mode" and noting that "UDMA 2" was automatically set, burned/verified a disc in just over 12 minutes.

Restarted, set the BIOS primary IDE back to NONE, went into the system/hardware/device manager/IDE controllers/primary IDE device 0, unchecked "let BIOS select transfer mode" noted that the transfer mode was set by the OS to "multi word mode 2" then I set the transfer mode to UDMA 2, restarted, verified the transfer mode was still at UDMA 2, then burned/verified another disc at 12x in just over 12 minutes.. Figured it out :P