[roy.jarvis]

I have recent ly bought a new SAMSUNG SH-S222L burner and it will only burn DVD at x4, no other option available.
Will burn CD at up to x48.
Running Widows XP home SP3
Long communication with Samsung but no real help.
Creator 6 is obviously recognising the drive but only for the lowspeed burn.
Any info would be useful even if I am stuck with reluctantly upgrading. Creator 6 does all I want so dont want to upgrsde.
Roy

[Jim_Hardin]

Check back tomorrow, Brendon may have a suggestion or 2 but you may be stuck where you are.

EMC 6 was the first to use Dynamic Drive Detection and also had a Drive List… It was the early days of DDD so your new drive may be too new for it to understand.

Brendon did some extensive work deciphering that list, so he may have an idea or 2.

Might help is you would outline what you do with the program.

[Brendon]

I have recent ly bought a new SAMSUNG SH-S222L burner and it will only burn DVD at x4, no other option available.
Will burn CD at up to x48.
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Creator 6 is obviously recognising the drive but only for the lowspeed burn.

Hello Roy,

You haven't said what blank discs you're using and what speeds they have available, but maximum burn speed is a result of blank disc ratings, maximum drive speed, and the rate that the software and system can feed data to the burner.

CD 48x is a 6.3 MB/sec data transfer rate. DVD 4x is 5.54 MB/sec.

You have a 22x burner, but if your discs are rated at 4x or your drive firmware doesn't recognize the disc MID or your software can't pump the data through any faster then 4x is the fastest burn you're going to get.

Given that Easy CD and DVD Creator 6 was published back near the turn of the century when a fast DVD burn was 2.4x, I don't think it will go any faster. Sorry.

[Jim_Hardin]

Given that Easy CD and DVD Creator 6 was published back near the turn of the century when a fast DVD burn was 2.4x, I don't think it will go any faster. Sorry.

It is not a software limit, this is a 8X DVD+RW running on V6 at 7X.



Of course it fluctuates between a 5, 6 & 7X but this is also on an old 550Mhz PC.

And it doesn’t take a lot of multi-tasking to suck the life out of the burn speed, dropping it to 2X

[Brendon]

Okay.

And your Optiarc is not in the "recognized" list, so it isn't Easy CD and DVD Creator 6 defaulting an unknown drive to 4x.

So Roy, tell us about your system specs and load, the discs you're using, and what available speeds are shown to you when you're about to burn?

[roy.jarvis]

Okay.

And your Optiarc is not in the "recognized" list, so it isn't Easy CD and DVD Creator 6 defaulting an unknown drive to 4x.

So Roy, tell us about your system specs and load, the discs you're using, and what available speeds are shown to you when you're about to burn?

Windows XP SP3
Processor AMD athlon 64 3500+ 2.20 Ghz
Mother board AS Rock 939 Dual -sat A2
FSB 2X800 16 bit
3GB ram ddr sd
Disc DVD-R 16x Verbatum
Kodak DVD-R 8x

only allows x4
Hope this helps Roy

[cdanteek]

Windows XP SP3
Processor AMD athlon 64 3500+ 2.20 Ghz
Mother board AS Rock 939 Dual -sat A2
FSB 2X800 16 bit
3GB ram ddr sd
Disc DVD-R 16x Verbatum
Kodak DVD-R 8x

only allows x4
Hope this helps Roy

Download the free and excellent 'DVD.Identifier' program (dvd identifier v5.2.0 version January 10, 2009) from, http://DVD.Identifier.CDfreaks.com

Then look at the Write Speed Descriptor(s) it shows with the Optiarc drive in the 'DVD.Identifier' program for both Kodak and Verbatim disc's..

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This post has been edited by cdanteek: 17 August 2009 - 08:09 AM