Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Burning Speed Problems

[SuperMedia]

This was from one of our customers and we wanted to warn some of you that Service pack 2 might be the reason you could be having some burning issues.

from Chexcter:

Quote:
I am sorry for the inconveniance but i figures out what the problem
was. It seems that the new windows xp sp2 will change your Primary and
Secondary IDE channels from DMA to PIO if it encounters more than i
belevive 3 errors when reading or writing a disc. This is done to
limit the IDE channel speed so that theoretically you will have no
more errors. So as soon as i put my dvd to backup it started reading
it at a much slower speed, and went from writing at 12x to 2.3x. The
reason i received those errors was only because my discs were
scratched not because my pc couldn't handle it but windows reads it as
errors and limits you. Simple solution is just to go into device
manager and under IDE Atapi delete the primary, secondary and the ide
controller. After this you reboot and it will reinstall them
automatically then just reboot again and problem solved. I just write
this since i am pretty sure you have had more people with same problem
and you might want to add this to your tips of things to do before
returning discs

[bazooka]

This is not a Service Pack 2 thing.

The same thing happens in Service Pack 1

[budz]

It's a known problem with xp period.

[gcutler]

That happened to me, drove me crazy, but I had an identical machine next to it that was not having a problem so I knew it was not the media. For quite a while I thought it was because I bought a cheapo 5400rpm project D: drive instead of 7200rpm, because when I moved the ISO file to my C: drive it burned at the appropriate speed. But luckily before I bought a new drive I found out about the deleting the controller driver and everything was fine from that point.

Yes this should be part of every support steps for too slow burning.