Pioneer AO5 Speed

[zkramp]

I have the pioneer A05 and I am using memorex 4x dvdr's. No matter what speed I choose (1,2, or 4x), it still takes about 50 minutes to burn the dvd. What is going on?

[gcgreen]

Could you give us more info?

What your are burning, system specs, firmware version on AO5, OS, etc.

Also any programs running in backgroud, or if your HD needs defraging can have a significant impact on transfer speeds.

[zkramp]

burning dvd movies, athlon 1800, 512 ddr, win xp, newest firmware from pioneer, i think 1.33 b, no programs running in the background, recently defraged (within a month).

is there a program that i can use to check my firmware?

[lemonkey]

zkramp, you are not the only one having this problem.

I also bought the A05 about 6 months back and my DVD's usually take about an hour to burn.

I have tried defragging, updating firmware, buying a 7200rpm hard drive and trying different media, but none of these helped.

So if anyone could help zkramp and myself please do.

Thanks,

[garryheather]

An hour is about right for burning at single speed.

If you're not using hacked firmware then suspect your media rating. Half an hour is about right for 2x, 15 minutes for 4x. Don't forget most burning applications allow you to select the burn speed from that offered by the media and the lookup table in the recorder.

Anything wildly out on that suggests your recorder is using some sort of buffer under-run protection, in which case you have a serious problem if your PC can not maintain such a sustainable rate.

[808smokey]

DMA Turned on for your burner???

[Xtreme]

I just solved the same exact issue with my computer. I went into my device manager and click on the IDE controller, checked the porperties and mine was in IPO mode. You have to switch this to Ultra DMA mode on the IDE controller that your DVD burner is on.
If changing this doesnt speed up your burner then go into device manager and remove the IDE controllers and reboot your machine. It will reinstall the controllers and then want you to reboot again, reboot and check your controllers, they should be in Ultra DMA mode. Once i got mine to work right it only took me 13 minutes to burn a 4.7 gig disk.

This was my post on my issue at the time:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=182301