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My CD burner seems to want to be pissy here recently. Sometimes it takes 6 minutes to burn a CD at 52x!! We all know it's not a true 52X and that is ramps but it used to burn a whole CD in like 2:20. It takes up to 2 minutes and sometimes longer for the drive to even start the real data recording. This is using Nero Reloaded (6.6.0.1). I also tried Alcohol 120% and it was a little better but not much. Still takes at least a minute to start the true recording. Here's where it gets interesting though, if I start a data CD compilation in Nero and burn it, it burns fine. When I use a BIN/CUE or an ISO or a NRG, it takes forever. Anybody have an experience like this? The burner will start to spin up then stop and spin down. It does it constantly then it'll do it and actually burn. I don't want to sound like I'm complaining on waiting 4 more minutes, it just seems like something is wrong and I want to fix it. I've tried the nVidia/MS drivers for the NF2 and am currently using the nVidia IDE SW 2.7 drivers (from a leaked Forceware). CD Burner is primary slave with a Pioneer DVD-ROM as the primary master. It's been that way for a year and a half now. My Sony DVD burner is secondary master and doesn't experience the same problem it's just a 24x CD burner. Windows has the drive as UDMA Mode 2 like it should. I'm all outta ideas.

Doesn't really sound like a driver problem to me. Did you use the same CDR media when performing these tests? If so, you may want to try a different brand. It also very well could be that your CDR drive itself is failing, especially considering that it burns a data compilation CD fine. This leads me to believe that your drive seems to have problems writing in DAO (disc at once) mode. What brand/model is your CDR and how long have you owned it?

It's LiteOn drive and I've had it for about a year and a half. The CDR media is constant. It's not my preferred brand but you can't be picky when you are given them as a gift. The burner doesn't give any errors, it just takes a little longer to burn. And it's not just DAO mode that does it as I did a multi-session disc in TAO and it's done the same.