Posted by Bill Vermillion on 09/20/00 11:26

In article <dfuog6$2b9$1@news.freedom2surf.net>,
Atropos <davewhite122000@spamnoyahoo.com> wrote:

>I have a Pioneer 107 that is now coastering 1 in 5 DVD-R I have
>now had two 109's. The first wouldn't even burn. The second, will
>not rip any unofficial DVD's(ie DVDR) at more than 1.0x.

>I've tried everything with the 109 and it will NOT rip em faster
>I've than that. cross-graded it to a Pioneer A09 as well. Didn't
>I've work.

>Anyway, so I needs to buy a new burner methinks and I'm sick of
>109's not doing the job.

>What I'd like is something in the spec of the 109, where the rip
>speed isn't locked, can be made RPC1(although not bothered if
>cannot). Dual Layer isn't really important as I don't think I'll
>ever use it. Not too expensive either. And not a Sony.

You didn't mention your OS. If it's XP that OS seems to think it
knows how to do things better than you.

So if something causes it to mis-read or retry [could be just a
momentary heavy load] I will often drop the ATA drivers from
DMA mode to PIO - and things then get really S-L-O-W.

Go into the "my computer", select "view system information".
Then select "hardware" and then "device manager"

Select you "ATA/Atapi Controllers" and then double click on each
of Primary and Secondary controllers.

Click on advanced settings.

You should see Transfer Mode - DMA if Avaiable. Then check the next
line to see if it is DMA mode.

If any of these is operating in PIO mode go back to the mamager
menu and RIGHT CLICK on either Primary or Secondary - whichever is
running in PIO mode - and then select "uninstall".

Reboot the system and it will tell you that new hardware had been
detected, and then you should reboot again.

This should fix anything that was running in PIO mode when it
should not.

I have to do this every 2 or 3 months. But then I push my system
hard.

Bill



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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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