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uzi786
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23. December 2008 @ 22:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hey guys, for some reason, when I'm burning a DVD on XP using Nero or IMG burn, it takes ages. Literall.

Ie, on Imgburn with XP, it took to me 1hr 23min to burn a 4gb ISO. The same ISO took 14min to burn when I used Toast on my Mac partition.
I then did a Nero speed test on XP and it found that my write speed peaked at 0.97x which is ridiculous imo.

I have found a few pieces of this problem on the net, but no solution. Hopefully someone here can help.

Thanks in advance.
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24. December 2008 @ 00:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Most likely the DMA is off for your burner, you need to enable it.


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24. December 2008 @ 06:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Ok.

Which model of mac.

The reason i ask is this.

There are two versions of the super drive for the mac one burn's dvd's only at 4x and the other burns dvd's at only 16x if the dvd media supports it.

Go into mac os x and click the link under the apple menu that says about this mac.

then click more info and select disk burning.

if you cache says this

Cache: 2048 KB

You have a version 1 Super drive which only burns at 4x sorry.

how ever if your drive says 2048KB

and displays this.

Media:
Type: DVD-ROM
Blank: yes
Erasable: yes
Overwritable: yes
Appendable: yes

Then you have a version 2 which will write at 16 x

as for burning in windows i am sorry to say that burning in windows has always been slow and without high speed media that supports higher read and write options your burning will always be slow.
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24. December 2008 @ 10:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I thought he/she was having problems with XP, not Mac....


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24. December 2008 @ 11:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Cyprusrom - I will google enabling DMA and try that.

susieqbb - I have the type 2 superdrive. I'm using a 8x blank DVD yet I can only write at 0.97x when running XP via bootcamp. No problems on the Mac side.
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24. December 2008 @ 11:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   


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24. December 2008 @ 13:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I tried that link above, but it seems really complicated. So I just tried to see out to enable DMA easily and found some instructions via Google.

I've now enabled it, yet it didn't make any difference...
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26. December 2008 @ 02:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Sounds like a windows limitation in boot camp.

Because remember windows is still being emulated just with physical hardware instead of software like parallels.

Weird it is limiting you though..
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