Sudden Buffer Underuns... Why?

[Flip Flop Frog]

I've got a Pioneer 106 DVD-RW and for weeks I was burning my DVDs at 4x with no problems at all...

I was burning from the same place (external 80GB FireWire HDD) to the exact same media... I must have burned 20 discs or so... now I come back a week later... no major changes to anything.... and now I can only burn at 2x without underrunns.... anyone got any ideas why?


Thanks....

[AntnyMD]

I started getting buffer underruns when I was burning from a nearly full HD. If thats your situation, burn at 2x until you've freed up enough space to return to 4x.

[Flip Flop Frog]

I thought about that... but nope... not the case... I've got 35GB free on the drive.... any more ideas?

[WiseWeasel]

I think he meant (or should have specified) on your startup disk. You need to have space there so Toast can use it as a scratch disk. Have you tried using a different [hard] drive, like an internal one to burn from? Also, why don't you turn on buffer underrun protection in Toast, so you save yourself the coasters.

[willrob]

Neither Toast 5 or 6 suppor tDVD Buffer underrun protection on the Pioneer 106. There's been a discussion of this on the accelerate your mac web site. Apparently the solution is to use Dragon Burn instead of toast.

william