CD burner write speed question

[Snorlax]

I just bought my first cd burner and as such have little to none burning experience. It is a Verbatim 52x24x52 with Nero software. I was trying to do a 52x cd copy from a 40x drive (source) with 48x media in the burner and the recorded cd has skips in it. I did a speed test and got 2 results. The "copy entire cd" option came up with 8x as the optimal speed and the "audio copy option" (you have to add each file to a list) came up with 24x as the optimal speed. I guess I could burn at slower and slower speeds until it works but would like to find a happy medium. Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[bacillus]

hmm, your source drive has to be faster than the speed you want to burn at for troublefree cd>cd copying.
also remember that your x40 drive only reads the outermost part of the cd at 40. the inner portion is read at a slower rate.
since you have nero, use the nero cdspeed test which is under toolkit in your nero program to see your readers speed capability.

 

[Doh!]

Also, make sure you have the CD-Rom and CD-RW in a separate channel (primary/secondary) and DMA is enabled for both.

 

[BG4533]

How fast is your computer? I would guess that PIO is enabled now rather than DMA. But still, the burner should have some sort of burn-proof thing to prevent skips if it is going too fast.

 

[Ravenit]

Make an image to your hard drive first, that way your HD should always be able to keep up. But the usual rule is not to be doing anthing else on the computer like opening files/playing games just so you dont burn more costers.