May be related...
I started to think about an old drive I had out of the system...
(A LiteOn. 812s)
I retired it (working fine) in favor of having a faster drive.
It was "very slow" when I put it back, but not nearly as bad as you said...
I made some mistakes in my "rush", and started to check all the small
details...
Due to being moved around, the jumper was NOT set to CS like
it should have been... (That made it very slow, but it still worked...)
Here is what I did. A flash and eeprom backup and then
a custom install of hacked firmware including a cross-burning
flag hack (and then re-flash) to make the drive into an L-O 832S,
(possible ONLY because they are the same hardware and family type).
I used to have buffer messages from Nero saying 16-35%.
NOW, it runs 98% full...
During all this, I learned L.O. uses an internal cache of what has
worked well, and also the generic results of the last four burns. If this
gets corrupted, or you have a particulary bad burn, the drive can get
confused... That can be re-set with the tools I found on the WEB...
(You basically make the drive think it is new and re-learn everything.)
This is not to be confused with the internal table for different Media types.
(That can be hacked too, but I go for rock solid burns, and am in
no real hurry.)
Since you can "kill" a drive easily fooling around like this I will not post
the links here right now. (I'd have to go find them since I only get
"this deep" into this about once a year...)
If you get the right stuff it is generally pretty safe if there is nothing
wrong with the hardware of the drive.
I never noticed if you posted the exact ID of the drive, as stated
by Nero. Find it easy on the "Choose a recorder" page. Don't forget
to post the firmware revision too...
I actually had a Nero Tool report my LiteOn drive as having
butned a disk as being by some Sony Model number...
(This is what got me started on all this...)
With some more detailed info, better answers might be possible from
the other users (and myself...)
FWIW, I had TEAC tell me to delete all burners in safemode to
help clean up Windows. (This was before XP IIRC.) I had "twin" drives,
and was swapping them both to different machines. (Only one in a machine
at any given time.) That worked, and made those drives work perfect...
(As long as I kept a certain one in, or for, a certain machine.)
Clear as mud... (There are a million rocks to look under...)
Rick Glazier
From: "Mike Miller"
My DVD burner became very slow, taking 8 hrs to burn a DVD+R at
at what Nero said was 16x. I flashed the drive to the latest
version with no improvement. I tried to burn a couple test data
disks on two different brands of media that had worked before
and both burns aborted. Looking at the Nero History, Nero fails
as an illegal disc.
I found a Sony test utility and tried that since some Sony
drives are really Lite-On which is what I have and got the
following error.
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No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/435 - Release Date: 8/31/2006
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