Burner shot?

[chewie8008]

I have a Pioneer 107D burner. It has not had hacked firmware. I have made hundreds of backups w/ very few errors, but have recently ran into a problem.

For some reason the last 4-5 i've done(both reading and writing) have taking well over double the time. I'm talking, it went from about 15 mins of writing to now taking 1.5 hour of writing. Is the burner going out, or do I need to hack firmware? Haven't done it before because i've heard you can ruin your drive like that, and I have no idea how to even start...

Not sure what has went wrong because I haven't made any changes to my PC in a long time. So I could only assume it's just getting wore out... I dunno.

Trying to think of anymore info you guys need, but that's all I can think of.

[redwudz]

The burner is probably in PIO mode. That will make it slow.

"Trying to think of anymore info you guys need"

Your computer profile filled out would help out considerably.

[richdvd]

I have a Pioneer 107D burner. It has not had hacked firmware. I have made hundreds of backups w/ very few errors, but have recently ran into a problem.

For some reason the last 4-5 i've done(both reading and writing) have taking well over double the time. I'm talking, it went from about 15 mins of writing to now taking 1.5 hour of writing. Is the burner going out, or do I need to hack firmware? Haven't done it before because i've heard you can ruin your drive like that, and I have no idea how to even start...

Not sure what has went wrong because I haven't made any changes to my PC in a long time. So I could only assume it's just getting wore out... I dunno.

Trying to think of anymore info you guys need, but that's all I can think of.

You say it is taking 1.5 hours to write a DVD5?
Something is very wrong...because that is well under 1x burning speed.
Make sure your burner is in DMA mode.

[pfh]

Did you make a change in media? Drive could be dying, dirty, lens allignment bad, newly installed software?

[Bob W]

My guess is the burner is in PIO mode and not dma so look in device manager under IDE controllers and set the drive back to dma (this requires a re-boot).

[chewie8008]

I checked it earlier, but it's not editable. The primary is set to DMA and the secondary is set to 'dma if available' but it says its in PIO mode. It is grayed out though, won't let ya change it. So I assumed that is my dvd player that came w/ the PC. The Primary is what i'm assuming the 107D is on is running Ultra DMA Mode 5.

I haven't changed anything though, and it was burning good before. I'm using same media.

[Bob W]

I checked it earlier, but it's not editable. The primary is set to DMA and the secondary is set to 'dma if available' but it says its in PIO mode. It is grayed out though, won't let ya change it. So I assumed that is my dvd player that came w/ the PC. The Primary is what i'm assuming the 107D is on is running Ultra DMA Mode 5.

I haven't changed anything though, and it was burning good before. I'm using same media.

The dvd player that came with the computer is most likely on the primary IDE as a slave and your burner is on the secondary as either the master or slave imo. Even the dvd player should be in dma. I would in windows device manager remove the burner then re-boot and let windows fine the device again and hopefully doing that will restore the device to dma enabled.

[redwudz]

If a DVD reader or burner has great difficulty reading a DVD, it can automatically revert to PIO mode and stay there.

This will make the DVD device slow. This is a common problem.

You need to reset the DVD device to DMA mode.

If you can't do this in the Device Manager, delete the IDE channel it's on and let the OS reset the device.