nero burning

[siavreg]

Ever since i burnt a music CD on my DVD burner it now takes me almost 1.5 hrs to backup a DVD movie where it used to only take me 15mins. My recording buffering level only ever gets to 35% and sometimes jumps up to 84% but then goes right back down to 35% when i did it before the music CD it got all the way to 100% and stayed there. Ive tried new firmware, ive taken alot off my hard drive (just junk saved to it)to see if that would help, defraged and tried a newer version of nero burn suite. I was wondering if anybody could help me.

Thanks in advance,
Mike

[Dimmer]

Check that your burner is running in UDMA mode rather than PIO. Look at the settings in Device Manager > IDE Controllers > Advanced Settings for the channel the burned is connected to.

[siavreg]

I went there and device 0 for "current transfer mode" is set up in Ultra DMA mode 2 and Device 1 for "current transfer mode" is set up in PIO mode. Both Device's for "transfer mode" is set up in DMA if available. Hope this helps you because other then what it is i don't know how to change device 1 out of PIO mode to DMA.
Thanks for the reply.

Please continue with the help, Thanks.
Mike

[Dimmer]

What channel is the burner connected to? Most of the computers have two IDE controllers - Primary and Secondary, each with channels 0 (Master) and 1 (Slave). Normally, Primary channel 0 is connected to the main hard drive, and the burner may be use any other channel. HDD would use UDMA 5 or 6, DVD drive - UDMA 2. PIO is suitable only for old CD-ROM or ZIP drives. If you can't switch transfer mode to UDMA for HDD or DVD drives, there must be something wrong with your system settings; it could be BIOS or Windows issue.

[siavreg]

The DVD burner is the secondary (slave). Is it possible to change channel 0 to PIO mode and then change channel 1 to UDMA mode. If not what would be the correct fix?

Thanks.
Mike

[Dimmer]

Well, you can see now that the problem is burner using PIO mode instead of UDMA. That's not supposed to happen when the channel set to DMA if available mode. Setting the master channel to PIO is unlikely to fix it. Look into BIOS setting first (press DEL when booting up on most computers); check the IDE settings and try to auto-detect DVD drive. If this won't help, hook up the burner to a different IDE port and see if you can enable DMA on that channel.