burning at 4x

[tyler5]

i have a pioneer dvr-106. works great, havent produced a single coaster yet. i do have one problem however. it wont let me burn at 4x. when i select 4x in nero/alcohol120 and click burn it shows that its burning at 4x (5250 something kbit/s) but it actually takes like 50 minutes to burn a 4.7 dvdr. alcohol120% also displays while burning that its going at like 1.4x - 1.6x speeds. why is that? why wont my drive write faster?

any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Rommie]

how is connected to your computer?

*internal?
*external - USB?
*external - firewire?

mine is external firewire (and does burn at 4x) but it can be connected USB. I doubt that it will burn at 4x with USB.

there are some settings for internal that matter but i'm on my mac... some one else will tell you.

[jeex]

you might try upgrading the firmware, check to make sure dma is available, and i think cdspeed (nero) will tell you how fast your drive is capable of burning by conducting a simulation of some sorts.

[tyler5]

i upgrared the firmware to 1.07 the day i bought it
yes, dma is allowed
i did a test with nero dvd-speed and it gave me 1.2x-1.6x as writing speed

[jeex]

how do you have the drive configured (secondary master?), how about the harddrive you're burning the data from, do you have a bunch of background programs running, have you defragged your harddrive

[tyler5]

the drive is set to secondary slave
the hard drive i'm burning from is primary slave
i reboot every time before burning something so, no, there are no programs running
i have defragged the hd, didnt help

[proxyx99]

Most modern media hold so called "burn strategy" sector as opposed to older DVD players that had this info in their own BIOS. Today, media tells the burner how to make a disk. Try different media at first. You may also call Pioneer support. Check groups for similar posts.