dvd burner only burning at 1x

piltonvet

had a burner for a while now
dell dimension 3000 with phillips dvd burner and samsung dvd rom

have sonic record now max and nero ultra edition
when i burn on the fly it only burns at 1x .
using ridisc 4x media.
im sure i done one ages ago and it burnt at 4x

any ideas anyone

thanx for lookin

shrek101

Both programs can be set up for various writing speeds depending on the burner and dvd media. Have you set them up for maximum burn. Even at maximum burn the media can write at various stages during the burning process. I rarely burn media on the fly goes back in the days of cdr media many years ago, I usually burn an image then write from that.

Dammam

Could also be your media. Ridisc are cheap, but the reputation of these and Datasafe / Datawrite disks from the same manufacturer is taking a big hit - quite often you'll get an entire spool of disks which give problems.
Pay a couple of pence more per disk on Ritek, Ridata, Verbatim and Traxdata disks and you'll get much better results.

wolfman

I agree. I originally went for cheaper brands when media was a lot more expensive. It's worth getting a decent disc as the amount that'll fail with cheaper discs will soon lose any money you thought you were saving.

Verbatim gets my vote. Never had a single fail with over 200 burns.

Also, buring on the fly is probably best at a low speed. In fact I wouldn't recommend burning on the fly. Sounds like either the software is limiting it to 1x because you're burning on the fly, or it's recognising the media as 1x speed media.

Joe_Bloggs

I had a problem where I shared an old DVD rom with a newish DVD burner on the same IDE cable. I could only burn at x1.1 max. If I disconnected the IDE cable from the DVD rom then the speed increased to that of the media.
I suspect that the older IDE interface of the reader was restricting the choice of faster transfer modes that could be used by the burner. Perhaps it is not a good idea to share fast hard disks with slow removable storage media on the same IDE cable.
J_B.

shrek101

Its not wise to connect cdrom/dvd roms to hard drive best on there own separate IDE.

I initial thought it could be media but Ritek have a pretty good reputation, I have used lots of this media over the years, although I ditched them some months back because of quality issues. I now use Datawrite printables, although I might change again soon to Taiyo Yuden dye as there meant to be one of the best there is.

piltonvet

i thought ridisc were riteks? ah well will try some other brands soon.
and slow down read speed ,never had a prob before on old system i had ,on the 4x no hassle

Rave

The problem is almost certainly that you're doing it on-the-fly- an IDE channel can't read and write at the same time so if both drives are on the same channel, it's very slow as the data has to be read in chunks from the read drive and cached, then it's written back to the write drive and so on and so on. This drastically limits the speed at which you can burn; I used to find with CDs that the BURN-proof function would start engaging at anything over about 8x- which corresponds to 1x or 2x in DVD terms. The answer is to put the read drive on the same IDE channel as your hard disk- contrary to popular belief this will not slow the hard disk down (at least not if both drives are UDMA) and it allows you to do seamless on-the-fly burns, because you have one IDE channel reading and one writing. I never copy DVDs on-the-fly, but I copy CDs like this quite often and it works perfectly with a 44x burn.