I've been having problems lately burning at 4x on my Digital Research Technologies Dual Format DVDR drive. It used to work fine but now my burns go at around 2x instead of 4x. I've tried restarting the computer to free all processing power, but the buffer level jumps between 15% and 50% and takes twice as long to burn as it should. If anyone has any ideas in what I can do to speed up my burner it'd be much apprecieated. System Specs: 1.6 ghz P4 762 mb sdram 18 gigs free
In basic terms DMA is a setting that allows faster data transfers to and from your drives. The usual method to check your DMA sttings is Device Manager>IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller>Primary or Secondary IDE Channel>Advanced Settings. You should then see if your drive is set to DMA or PIO. If you have Intel Application Accelerator installed the advanced setting tab won't be there. In that case just open IAA from your Start menu and you can check your settings from there.
Ok, I've done that before...and all were set at DMA If Available...and only Device 1 used DMA Super Ultra 5 something or other and PIO for the second part. Device 2 was set to DMA if Available but it said it was using PIO instead. Is there anyway I can get DMA support with a firmware update or something?
duffloes, Heres a link to a Doom9 thread that discusses getting your system back to DMA: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.p...73b80bf8f233&threadid=63560&highlight=DMA/PIO I would think twice about deleting as suggested in one post, but if you have not been able to get your burner's IDE channel back to DMA, I would consider doing it. Frank
