CD burning speed only goes to 8x

[Guest]

I am running Roxio Create CD 5.3.5 and for some reason although my burner's
top speed is 40x and the blank CD's that I'm using max at 80x. However, the
max speed that I can burn is 8x, if I select a higher burn speed Roxio kicks
out the CD with an overrun error.

Any insight?

 

[Rock]

I am running Roxio Create CD 5.3.5 and for some reason although my burner's
top speed is 40x and the blank CD's that I'm using max at 80x. However, the
max speed that I can burn is 8x, if I select a higher burn speed Roxio kicks
out the CD with an overrun error.

Any insight?

Have you tried it with 40x or slower CDs. Using higher rated CDs in a
slower rated burner might not work.

 

[Bob Knowlden]

Does Easy CD Creator recognize your burner properly?

Roxio has a drive update available for download to add newer drives:

http://www.roxio.com/en/support/ecdc/software_updatesv5_2.jhtml

but the web page implies that it's only for the "platinum" version of ECDC.
Might be worth a try even if you have the "basic" version.

Or, spend some money and get a newer CD burning software package. I mainly
use Nero, although I keep version 7 of Easy CD Creator (now called Easy
Media Creator) installed for those rare occasions when I need the packet
writing ability. (InCD, Nero's packet writing software, has not been
reliable for me.)

You have 80X CDs? I've never seen those. 80 *minute* CDs, yes.

HTH.

Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

 

[Santa]

Defrag!!!

And you could just have some BAD Cd's
I never buy the Cd-r's That Have a silver Mirror Finish on the Top ( Not
the recording side)
I had The silver pop off and the Cd is useless and My Burners are slowed
right down to less then 10x..

pop another Type cd-r in and it Burns at 40X

 

[Al Smith]

Mine goes all the way up to eleven.

 

[Malke]

I am running Roxio Create CD 5.3.5 and for some reason although my
burner's
top speed is 40x and the blank CD's that I'm using max at 80x.
However, the max speed that I can burn is 8x, if I select a higher
burn speed Roxio kicks out the CD with an overrun error.

Any insight?

Please check to make sure the drive is using the proper Ultra DMA Mode
and not PIO. Do this in Device Manager. Expand the IDE/ATA Controllers
and you should entries for the drives in your system. Find the burner
and double-click its entry to get its Properties. Look on the Advanced
tab and see what data transfer mode it is using. If it is showing PIO,
that's your problem. Here is some information about that from MVP
Hans-Georg Michna:

http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDMA.htm

Malke

 

[John A]

Same here - also using Roxio - with some brands of CD I can get 12 x,
but mostly 8 x - occasionally only 4 x

John Allen

 

[Guest]

Could it be due to the fact that I am using "data" cd-rs vs. "music" cd-r's?
According to my research though, there is really no difference between the
two.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Check for DMA access modes for hard drive/CD burners.

Check of drive configuration updates.

Or try Roxio 6 or 7.

 

[Bob I]

Sounds like something in the system is incorrectly set up. The "buffer
underrun" protection has determined that your system cannot provide data
to the burner any faster than 8x and so prevents you from creating
coasters. There are numerous reasons that the "system" can't provide
data fast enough, but you will have to hunt them down and correct them.
Possibilities are burner and source on the same IDE channel, no DMA for
the drive, not enough system memory, slow CPU, too many programs running
in the background(malware could be responsible), etc.