anyone else use Matrix 8x DVD-R media with a pioneer107?

[pixel zombie]

their website claims a burn time of 8 minutes for 4.7 gigs, i just burned 4.2 gigs and it took 29 minutes!!!!.....my pioneer 107 has the 1.18 firmware and i am running a beige g3/768 megs of ram/osx 10.2.8 and i am using the burner with an ata100 ide card....this can't be normal as it took about 28 minutes to burn 4.2 gigs with 4X TDK media...

[Capmaster]

They both sound like 2X and not 8X. It sounds like the 107 is throttling back because of an interface issue. Can you install in on another channel?

[Dunnyman]

What are you using as far as software? I was running Toast 6.01, 28 minutes burn time, upgraded to 6.03, 28 minutes burn time, upgraded to 6.07, 7 minutes burn time, I changed nothing else, I just think Toast has some issues with 8x burns in older versions because the selection menu listed 1-12x DVD, whereas the newer version lists 1x-16x DVD for burn speed.

[pixel zombie]

i tracked it down to the ata card, it's an older card i guess that isn't well supported on the mac...at first i had buffer underrun errors, so by chance i swapped the ide cables on the motherboard and that took care of that problem...