Slow copying/burning from cd-burner

[Bizkitkid2001]

My cd burner is going really really slow. It takes almost 10 minutes to burn a cd, and even longer to copy one. Its a 48x cd burner, it use to burn a cd in 3 minutes, now it takes almost 10. Whenever its burning a cd the read buffer in nero seems to stay low, and even somtimes dropps down to 4%. The recorder buffer jump between 50 and 97%. Before both would be at 100% and it would go really fast. The only thing I changed was added another burner as a slave to the ide channel, but it shouldn't slow it down by that much.

[Rand Dusing]

When i take my hard drive and dvd burner on seperate drives, the ripping process it twice as fast. Maybe take out that drive and try it again.

[stroyal]

In general if you are going to rip the CD ROM or DVD ROM have to be on differant IDE channels than the burners. If you are copying from your HD it has to be on a seperate IDE channel than the burners. You realy need 3 IDE channels to do both, thats why I use an IDE PCI controler for a 3rd and/or a 4th channel.

Edit: You should not have a CD drive on the same channel as the HD

[Bizkitkid2001]

I have my windows drive, and my storage drive on a master/slave setup on ide 1. I have my 48x burner and my 12x burner on a master/slave setup on ide 2. I have my 8gig on my controller card. I see no conflict with this setup.

I use to have my 48x burner on the same ide channel as my 8gig and it works fine. It doesn't matter if you have a HD and cd-rom ont he same channel.

[stroyal]

I see no conflict, but you didn't say what you had.
I'm sure your 48X burner worked fine, but it would have copied from that 8gig HD faster if it was on a seperat channel.

[Bizkitkid2001]

I'm not copying from the 8gig, i'm trying to copy from the windows or the storage drive, or from my other cd-rom.

[Gettinbye]

What version of Nero do you have? In Nero 6, you can set the amount of system memory (up to 80mb) to act as a buffer (above and beyond the common 2mb that most burners now have).
If you've got nero 5, you might look at your free memory at the time of burning. Low buffer cache is more than likely a sign that background processes are eating up memory and/or CPU time. You might try Ctrl+Alt+Del and see how many unnecessary proccesses are running before trying to burn a CD.
It is possible, as well, that your CDRW drive may be having a problem(low rpms,weak motor,ect...). Nero CD drivespeed should give you some idea as to the overall health and efficiency of your burner...

[Bizkitkid2001]

I am using the newest version of Nero express. It came with the cd-burner when i bought it. I had it detect the speed of the drive, and then checked the cache which is 16 mb.

Hopefully its not the drive as its farely new. I think it has to do something software wise, as my computer just goes to a crawl while burning a cd. Hell, as i'm typing this reply, it takes a good 2 seconds after I type for the letters to show up.

[tony_j15]

how much total system ram do you have?

[Bizkitkid2001]

512mb PC2700