Unable to burn at 8X with Pioneer DVR-107A

[winwook]

Here's my problem. Just installed at new Pioneer DVR-107D in my 400MHZ Sawtooth AGP. I use Toast 5.2.1 to burn CD's and DVD's, but I haven't been able to burn at 8x speed. The firmware on my drive is already 1.10. I used Memorex 8x DVD-R's but wasn't given an 8X burning speed in Toast (only 4x).

If I upgrade to Toast 6.0, will I be able to burn at 8x speed? Is anyone out there burning DVD-R's at 8x speed yet, and is it possible to burn at 8x speed using 4x media?

I've burned a few coasters when burning at 4x speed with 4x DVD-R's (buffer underruns). It doesn't seem like my computer can handle burning a DVD and doing something else simultaneously, so I pretty much just leave it alone while it's burning. Any tips would be great.

[Macnewbie]

From what I've read on firmware hacking sites, only certain brands of media "certified" by Pioneer can actually be burned at 8x in the DVR 107. If you do a search of this forum for DVR-107 you find a thread where there is a link to hacked firmware for the DVR-107 that will allow you to select 8x burn speed no matter what brand or speed media you have.

[Meritocracy]

The main problem being that you need access to a PC in order to apply the firmware. If you only have a mac at your disposal, I know of no one who has reported success applying the firmware with these drives using VPC. As to your Buffer Underrun problems, if I recall correctly this problem was corrected with Toast 6.0.3.