Slow write to hard drive

[koala1946]

I Have been backing up my movies for two years now and have used either DVD Shrink or DVD Fab.Lateley I have a problem writing the movie to the hard drive,it writes it at a very slow speed of .8 MB per min.so it takes one to two hours to put it on the drive.There is plenty of space on the hard drive (100+)gig.I thought it was my burner( Sony) so I bought a new one and I get the same problem.I am running Zone Alarm in the backround could that be a problem? My computer is a five year old Dell. Any help would be appreciated.

[ilovejedd]

You've already tried defragmenting, right? :p

[setarip_old]

Hi!

If applicable to your system, make certain that DMA is turned on for all pertinent drives/burners:

In the Device Manager (via the Control Panel>>System>>Hardware>>Device Manager), you simply have to remove the applicable IDE channel (Click on "IDE...Controllers") and let your computer reset it to DMA as follows:
Right click on the pertinent channel in Device Manager
Click on uninstall
Reboot
After rebooting go back to Device Manager and change the setting to "DMA if available"...

[koala1946]

Thanks for your input,I went to the Device manager and IDE controller and it said DMA if available on both the primary and secondary channel.?????

[JohnnyMalaria]

Is your burner external? If so, it isn't using USB1.1 instead of USB2.0 is it? USB1.1 is s-l-o-w for this kind of thing.

[blutach]

DMA if available is one thing. Does it actually say it is in DMA mode?

Regards

[koala1946]

How do I check that?

[blutach]

Same way you saw if it said DMA if available. Open your ATA channel in Device Manager and see what it says. Change it to the highest DMA mode that's available.

Regards

[koala1946]

Blutach, I checked on that and found this:Primary-Device 0- current transfer mode ultra DMA MODE 5,device 1 current transfer mode not applicable.Secondary-device 0 current transfer mode PIO,device 1 CTM ultra DMA Mode 5.I should note that both the cd rom drive and the burner are connected to the same ide cable and the cs/master/slave settings are both on cs.

[setarip_old]

Secondary-device 0 current transfer mode PIOSo follow my instructions in Post #3 of this thread...