[Troy Jollimore]

I give help much more often than I need it, but this one has me kerfuddled...

My A7N8X Deluxe has really poor IDE performance with my LG 52X CR-RW drive under Windows 2000. It'll max out at a 12X burn using Roxio EZ-CD 5.1 copying from the HD to the CD-R. It sinks to 4-5X when I try a disc to disc copy.

It uses the default Windows 2000 IDE driver, but I can't seem to find anyone else complaining about their performance. Is everyone just using XP now, or could my system be a lemon? I haven't benchmarked anything yet, but the WD 80-JB hard drive seems to work pretty quick, so it's hard to say.

 

[Troy Jollimore]

HA! *Whacks self in head*

Guess I've been growing too accustomed to the auto-detect in Windows getting better and better. I've never had occasion to go searching for those settings before in 2K, and never thought to look in that spot for them. I didn't think the DMA/PIO mode switch would have that dramatic an impact, either.

I just burned off an ISO at around 40x with buffer underrun protection enabled. I guess that means it works. Thanks alot!