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I did a clean reinstall of XP pro, I loaded all the drivers I could find on the recovery discs, when I Burn a CD or DVD it is very slow, my guess is the driver. Checking the properties of the drive it comes up with a driver provided by Microsoft ver. 5.1.2535.0 dated 7/1/2001.

I have been looking in the Recovery CD’s, Sony and web but I don’t seem to be able to find the correct driver, any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

There is no specific driver for it.

The slowness can be attributed to a lot of things. For one, the drive is going to be slower than most desktop drives so that’s not a good indication. Also, often the burner has to wait on the hard disk to do caching and a slow hard disk can slow down the process.

You may want to check in your Device Manager to make sure DMA (and not PIO) mode is selected for both your Hard Disk and your Optical Drive.

Groovyone, thank you for your quick response, my drive is a 60GB 7200RMP, so I don’t think is the HD, I checked and both devices have DMA Selected, I will try to reinstall the microsoft Driver and see if that solves the problem

[quote author=“jbanos”]when I Burn a CD or DVD it is very slow, my guess is the driver.

Try updating your ASPI drivers. I believe the latest from Adaptec is 4.71a2. That should help resolve the slow read and write issue. You can also try ForceASPI.