Nico3d3 Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Is there a secret hidden setting to determine the speed of DVD burning in OS X? Right now, the burning is painfully slow. In fact, I prefer to boot with my Knoppix LiveCD and use K3B when I need to burn a DVD because it's quicker this way. I don't understand why I was always able to burn DVD at 8x when I was on Vista (crappy M$ OS) and on OS X, it seem to be burning at less than 4x. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nico3d3 Posted November 3, 2007 Author Share Posted November 3, 2007 Bump, anyone know what cause this problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phanguy Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 more information on your set up would be nice. parts, os, kernel, etc. though i had a similar situation. all i needed to do was changed my ide cable. turned out the speed of the one i was using just wasn't fast enough under osx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nico3d3 Posted November 4, 2007 Author Share Posted November 4, 2007 I use Macdotnub with OS X 10.4.10 and I have an Asus PL5-VM with a Core2Due E6400. Maybe the problem is caused by the fact I have two disc reader plugged into the same IDE cable? Unfortunately, I have only one IDE connector on my motherboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoarthing Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 I use Macdotnub with OS X 10.4.10 and I have an Asus PL5-VM with a Core2Due E6400. Maybe the problem is caused by the fact I have two disc reader plugged into the same IDE cable? Unfortunately, I have only one IDE connector on my motherboard. (my emphasis) . . if one of two devices on the same channel is not working in DMA mode, both devices [ie the IDE channel] will be set to the rate of the lowest-speed device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nico3d3 Posted November 4, 2007 Author Share Posted November 4, 2007 Ok, but how do I change this setting in OS X? What's even more strange is that, I tried to burn a DVD in Windows XP inside a virtual machine using VMWare Fusion and the burning speed is normal even if I'm using a virtualized Windows XP as opposed to a real XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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