Somebody save me from throwing my computer against a wall. I have a system that I use for dvd duplication. It has a Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H motherboard, with an AMD Core 6400+ (64-bit) processor running at 3.21GHz. The OS is XP Home. I have 4 gigabytes of Crucial RAM installed. I have (4) Samsung SH-S223l SATA dvd burners installed, and a 500GB IDEWestern Digital hard drive.
When I burn one or two dvds simultaneously, burn times are normal, about 6-7 minutes at 12x. When I attempt to burn 4 discs at the same time, it takes over 90 minutes. This shouldn't be. It's very frustrating. I have tried versions 6, 7, and 9 of Nero Burning Rom. Nothing changes. Can anyone shed some light on this?
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I've always burnt with 2/3/4 burners in Nero doing multiple concurrent burns, from IDE/SATA hard drives (though i currently have 6 SATA hard drives and loads of IDE drives via USB 2.0) with IDE/SATA burners and USB 2.0 burners and combinations of all the above, with no problems at all.
An easy test is to try ripping 4 DVD's at once, see how that works..maybe the hard drive is struggling a tad to keep those burners busy..
It might be worth checking DMA on that IDE drive. It's a long shot but can't think what else to suggest at the moment.
Originally posted by KillerBug: I assume you have tried burning two discs at a time with all of the drives to make sure that the problem is not in just one of them?
Yes. I tried burning every possible combination of two burners simultaneously. They all burned with no problem. I also tested each one individually, and they all performed fine as well. The problem is with the 4
Where is the solution? This link just takes me back to another thread I started, about this same problem. Could it be you posted the wrong link, or am I just missing something?
Originally posted by creaky: Thread teleported to relevant forum.
I've always burnt with 2/3/4 burners in Nero doing multiple concurrent burns, from IDE/SATA hard drives (though i currently have 6 SATA hard drives and loads of IDE drives via USB 2.0) with IDE/SATA burners and USB 2.0 burners and combinations of all the above, with no problems at all.
An easy test is to try ripping 4 DVD's at once, see how that works..maybe the hard drive is struggling a tad to keep those burners busy..
It might be worth checking DMA on that IDE drive. It's a long shot but can't think what else to suggest at the moment.
Thanks. I searched and discovered that dma is already enabled. Too bad though. That seemed like it could really be the solution. But that's not the problem. Thanks anyway.
