|  | Posted by Thomas Tornblom on 09/21/05 17:24 
under@lycos.co.uk (Jeff Korn) writes:
 > I bought a new, often recommended DVD burner LG GSA-4163B which officially burns DVDs at 8/16x speed and reads at 16x speed.
 >
 > Now, when I try to copy (under Win2000) a couple of files (<10) from a previously burned DVD (+RW format)
 > through WindowsExplorer onto my harddisc it needs approx 35 minutes !!!
 >
 > Can it be ?
 >
 > I cannot believe it. Is there a wrong driver (Officially the Win2000 standard driver should be sufficient) ?
 > Currently the driver cdrom.inf is resonsible for this device. Isn't there a "dvd.inf" or something similar better suited?
 > From where do I get this driver (There was no additonal CD supplied with the hardware)
 >
 > No other ressource consuming programs are running. The harddisc offers enough free space (>20 GB).
 > So what wrong?
 >
 > Do I have to jumper the DVD in a special way?
 > Do I have to setup something in the BIOS?
 > Do I have to toggle a special Windows setting?
 
 Yes, make sure you have DMA enabled in windows for the
 drive. Apparently win 2k defaults to PIO mode for CDROMS/DVDROMS. It
 will even switch from DMA to PIO mode if you replace and old CDROM
 with DVD burner, as I found out the hard way.
 
 >
 > Jeff
 >
 
 Thomas
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