CD-RW and DVD on same ribbon?

[Catchen22]

Yesterday when I was coping a cd it took 20 minutes. I have a TDK 24x cd burner and I know it shouldn't take 20 minutes. The Estimated time says around 3 minutes not 20 minutes. I was thinking maybe I have to have them on different ribbons and on different IDE to get the full use of the cd burner and DVD. Do you guys think this might be it or not? If not then please tell me what it could be.

 

[aka1nas]

This is a possibility when copying as they are sharing the same bandwith, but more likely it was something else. Were you copying a game? Some copy protection algorithms(SafeDisc II in particular I think) can take a long time to extract and burn compared to other titles. I have the same burner and am currently running it on the same channel as my DVD drive. Also, does your DVD drive have DMA enabled? That would make a huge difference in speed. It will take longer than 3 minutes either way with copying, juts becuase their is gonna be some asynchronousness between the two drives. I usually can do a copy in 5 to 7 minutes.