Pioneer DVR-106D burns at 2x

[zanos]

It takes me 24 minutes to burn a dvd image file on a tdk 4x blank disc. Is this normal? I thought this was supposed to take 15 minutes or so. My firmware is 1.06 so I don't know what's going on. TIA

[GKar]

Is DMA enabled for your drive?

[garryheather]

It could also be your media isn't certified to write at that speed.

Just because it's been printed on the disc does not mean it corresponds to the lookup table in the firmware. Pioneer might not agree with the manufacturer of the media as to the quality, so it throttles back. This is a very common problem and features prominantly elsewhere in the forums.

You shouldn't have a problem with genuine TDK media, although in the scheme of things they haven't been producing 4x media for that long, and the drive might think it still has to use 2x.

BTW - Princo hijacked TDK's media code... are they genuine TDK ?

[GKar]

This may not apply to you, but it just happened to me! I just purchased an AOPEN DVD+RW DRW4410 to replace my RMA'd Nec ND-1100a that died. I put the Aopen in and started burning only to find my 4x drive taking 30+ minutes to burn a 4x disk. I threw my other motherboard in, an ECS L7S7A2 (SiS746 chipset), and reinstalled Windows and low and behold the Aopen was buring at 4x like it should. I guess either Aopen DVD drives didn't like the VIA KT600 chipset or my Windows installation was bad....I'm just happy it worked.