Posted by Atropos on 11/15/64 11:33

"Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
news:438dee71.169440406@news-server.houston.rr.com...
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:07:34 -0000, "Atropos"
> <davewhite122000Nowdontbesillylads@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>> Pioneer has advertised their 108,109,and 110 drives as 16x.
>>> According to their tech line the 110 has been certified to
>>> burn at 16x with Verbatim disks. My friends and I have
>>> now tried both Verbatim and Memorex 16x DVD-R blanks in
>>> each of these with the following results:
>
>>> 108 burns at 4x
>>> 109 burns at 6.1x
>>> 110 burns at 5.6x
>
>>> All of the drives have been updated to the latest firmware
>>> and all of them have no trouble burning 8x disks at 8x.
>
>>> Has anyone been able to burn at 16x with any blank media?
>
>>There are all kinds of factors that could be affecting this.
>
> My experience is that it is a defective disk that causes slow burns.
>

Agreed or that UDMA/PIO issue.

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