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Posted by Lance on 09/22/05 04:43
Well, 4.3GB in 35 minutes is about 2050 kB/sec. According to my copy of
Roxio, 16x is equivalent to 2400 kB/sec.
Your new drive is doing fine. You just need to realize a DVD holds gobs
of data.
Lance
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Jeff Korn thought carefully and wrote on 9/21/2005 7:55 AM:
> 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)
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> 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?
>
> Jeff
>
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