dvd200i only writes CD-R and CD-RW at 2x speed. DVD speed ok

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Everyone talks about writing DVDs with this drive but I have not found any info about writing CDs. The supplied software sucks but I can not seem to get it to copy an audio CD, format in DLA, create a data CD, or copy a data CD at a rate faster than 0.3 Mbytes/s (CD 2x rate). I replaced an HP 4x CD writter drive that worked at 4x great. I'm blown away that the new drive only writes my 24x CD-R media at 2x.

I can write 800 Mbyes to a DVD+RW in 5 minutes using the supplied DVD authoring software (~2.6 Mbytes/s). I'm using Windows 98 SE.

Has anyone seen this drive write a CD at a rate faster than 2x using HPs software? If not, I'm sending it back unless they buy me the required software.

I'm going to uninstall the record now and DLA software and reinstall my old adaptec software plus driver update and see if that fixes the problem.

I emailed HP and they told me to spend more money on a toll call to their tech support.

Thanks for any help.
Ted

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I am finally able to see 12x CD-R and CD-RW write speed on lots of
different media. How I got this to work is a mystery but here is what I did:

1. Uninstall Recored Now and DLA
2. Install 1999 version 3.? adaptec easy CD creator that came with old
HP CDwritter 8200
-Find out that dvd200i not supported
-Download free upgrade from web
-Find out that old version can not be upgraded
3. Unintall Adaptec easy CD creator
4. Run EasyVCD to create a VCD using cdrdao to write disk
-Find out that dvd200i not supported
-switched to generic scsi driver
-able to blank a CD-RW disk
-created a VCD and cdrdao was able to write disk at 12x rate
5. Stick the dvd200i installation CD in the drive and reinstall
Record now and Core Support. Leave DLA uninstalled
6. Run Record Now
-Made a data CD-RW with a 480 Mbyte mpeg file at 12x rate
-Made an audio CD-R at 4x when doing disk copy
-Made an audio CD-R at 12x when reading source to disk then disk
to CD-R

I still need to figure out how to get CD to CD copy faster but I've seen the drive and supplied software run at the advertised speed so I am done complaining. I have a Toshiba DVD-ROM drive as the master and the dvd200i as the slave. I will try to swap these and see what happens. I will also see if there is some read ahead knob to set for the DVD-ROM drive. DMA is enabled for both drives.

I will try to reinstall DLA and see if all is still ok tonight.