DVD R / Burner help

[Regal]

Guys, help me out with something.

I notice after a few burns w/ my external drive which was awesome and all burned at 4x. Then at about the 4th backup, my buffer % went down to 1% and my dvd record speed went to 1x and stayed there.

I then closed the burn session and was thinking it was a bad dvd-R, so I got another dvd-r and it did the same thing after it completed about ¼ of the way.

Then I ejected that dvd-r out and reboot system and tried again w/ another brand dvd-r and it did the same and went to 1% buffer @ 1x. Why is it doing that? What could be wrong?

The 1st three dvd-r’s were Optodisc which I had never had any probs. Then after the reboot PC I got out my mighty Prodisc and it did the same also. What is this problem occurring? Any suggestions?


I have about 3 gigs of hard drive space still available. This is weird. Hummmm..

Additional info:

I have a USB 2.0 Lacie 8x external burner. Software using to burn is Roxio Creator (which I used 1 million times before). My Lacie is a LiteOn 812 w/ the new firmware update. Could my burner be dieing?? Thanks

[CoffeeEater]

Are you copying DVDR to DVDR?

If so, 3 gigs is NOT enough.

[Regal]

No. I have 3 gig hd still avalible on the HD. Not what I am copying. I use Shrink to copy to hard drive in folder and then Roxio to burn.

I am just wondering what makes the buffer rate go down.

[bazooka]

Check to see if DMA is enabled.

[Regal]

Bazooka, I never messed w/ the setting. why all the sudden it would do this?

[bazooka]

Bazooka, I never messed w/ the setting. why all the sudden it would do this?

If you have so many failed attempts to read a disc, then the drive reverts back to Pio mode, which results in lower read speeds and burning speeds.

[Regal]

Bazooka, I never messed w/ the setting. why all the sudden it would do this?

If you have so many failed attempts to read a disc, then the drive reverts back to Pio mode, which results in lower read speeds and burning speeds.

Well it never failed. I just quit the burn and close out the software b/c I saw the buffer drop to 1% from 100% and then burn speed decreased to 1x from 4x and it did not move back up to 4x.

I think I might get a new burner. I have a CompUsa warrenty. So i'll do an exchange

[canadateck]

You should let it burn all the way. I always have a drop in speed, I dont think it is constant.