I have Easy Media creator 8. When I try to burn a large file or image (2-3GB) I only get .8x speed (about 1meg/sec) Resulting in a 50-60 minute burn. I have an 8x burner, 8x disks and I set the disk copier to 8x. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get the disks to burn at their normal speed?


I have reinstalled the product, rebooted many times and made sure my DMA settings are right. I am not burning video, so there is no compression involved. The machine is a Brand new Precision 380 with 4gb of ram

Have you checked to see if you have the latest firmware for your drive? EMC is firmware dependent and it does make a difference.

What kind of burner do you have, and what media are you using? You could be running in PIO mode or your firmware is not up to date. The symptoms seem to point to one or the other.

I will check the firmware, though this drive worked just fine in my old machine, its when I put it in the new machine it started slowing down.

Do you have it connected via an 80 wire/40 pin ribbon cable? That is the type that is connected to your hard drive, and you should have one connected to your burner, too.

If it is the old 40 wire/40 pin type, get a new cable.

To check what mode your drive is running with, open up your BIOS SETUP and under the drives listing (Usually listed under the "MAIN" Tab). Check to see what mode the drive is set at. Instead of PI0 mode, you should set the drive for a DMA mode. Some BIOS selections will let you set the PI0 and DMA mode to "AUTO" or let you manually change the mode. But as suggested you should connect an 80 wire/40 pin ribbon from your mb to the drive (Assuming you are using ribbon cables and an IDE drive).

Frank....