Newly installed burner burn speed

[setarip_old]

Hardware installation is not my forte (major understatement!), so although I believe I have a sense of what the problem is, I'd rather hear from those who know, especially "LIGHTNING UK!", if you're available:

I just had a second burner installed, so that I now have one DVD-ROM and two DVD burners.

The second burner, a SONY (NEC) DVD RW AW-Q170A (firmware v.1.70), is burning at less than 2X.

If I select this burner's "Properties", the "General" tab lists it as a SCSI CD-ROM device, on Bus Number 0, Target ID2, Lun 0..

It was intentionally NOT put on the same bus with the DVD-ROM and the first burner so as to (presumably) avoid conflict when trying to concurrently use multiple recorders (in NERO).

I have two hard drives that are seen as ATA and two others that are seen as SCSI.

The "belief" that I referred to is that this new burner should have been added to the bus of the two ATA drives.

Any insight will be greatly appreciated...

[burfadel]

I don't know how you set that up... where have you plugged in the drives recognised as scsi? do you have an addon card for that? If thats the case, and even if its not, it sounds like it may be a driver issue, have you tried updating to the latest drivers of each?

Windows drivers suck, and the drivers you get with the computer or device are usually outdated!

[setarip_old]

it sounds like it may be a driver issue, have you tried updating to the latest drivers of each?
Windows drivers suck, and the drivers you get with the computer or device are usually outdated!The drivers are IDENTICAL to those used by the first burner (a Pioneer 108), which continues to work perfectly - so unless there's something else I'm not understanding, I don't see how the drivers could be the problem...

**EDIT** - I just noticed the following line in the NERO log:

"CdRomPeripheral : SONY DVD RW AW-Q170A 1.70 ultra Port 2 ID 2 DMA: Off"

As far as I know, there's no way to turn on DMA for a drive identified as SCSI, is there?

[DaChew]

what's the mobo? and what controller is the sony hooked to?

[jeffy]

Take a look at this really old thread and let us know:
http://www.futurehardware.in/128664.htm

If it doesn't help, please give some details about your system (most important: motherboard, add-in controller cards, if any).


Brief:
"The BIOS correctly shows all of the IDE drives."

"I checked for DMA and similar issues and noticed that in the device manager all IDE devices (including the hard drive on IDE0) are listed as SCSI. "

"The Nforce IDE controller drivers are well known for this exact issue, so uninstall them and run the default MS IDE drivers. Depending on which driver pack you used, you might need to remove them from "add-remove" programs, or just uninstall from device manager."

"I uninstalled the IDE drivers and was able to burn a CD."

[setarip_old]

It may not have been an elegant solution, but it was simple. The positions/connections of the DVD-ROM and the new burner were swapped...

Thanks for the interest ;>}