Posted by Bill Jeffrey on 03/20/07 15:02

jmc wrote:
> Bought a new Memorex 18X burner, which is quite slow, called the
> manufacturer and was told the problem was in my secondary IDE channel. He
> told me how to adjust it, but there are no controls. He told me the SP 2
> from Microsoft had it. I have all the updates from Microsoft installed, any
> way around this speed problem, 4X is a bit slow for a 18 X drive. Dell says
> its the hardware, they says it Microsoft and Intel.
> The controler is an Intel 82801DB Ultra ATA control. Any help most
> appreciated. Thanks
>
> JMC

What are the disks rated for? I think the drive reads the disk
parameters, and if the disk says 4X, the drive won't go any faster.

Bill

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