CD Writer copies slow

[CregBeary]

I had my mitsumi CR-4801 TE in my 400mhz pii but once i upgraded it seemed like it copied too slow. So i moved it into my 333mhz AMD k6-2 with on board sound and video. But it does the same thing. What happens is when i start burning the cd and it starts to copy the sorce to the hard disk it gets up to 800 tracks on about 240,000 and goes really slow. Too slow to copy and i just click cancel. This is all taking place on my sorce cd rom drive that is a atapi 32X so I'm thinking that it doesn't have much to do with my cd-r drive and i don't know why it did it on my other computer. I am useing nti cd copy 3.5.750. I tried everything and I always get about the same result. If i try cd to cd copy, when it is scanning it and it gets to 800 out of 10,000 it just goes really slow. The same happens when i just try to test the speed of the drive in the program. Any help you guys could give me would be greatly appreciated because i'm stumped.
Thanks

[This message has been edited by CregBeary (edited 02-07-2000).]

[MadMatt]

Make sure your source and destination aren't on the same IDE controller - that will KILL performance dead. Put your regular CD-ROM as a slave on your primary and your writer as master (or slave, if you have a 2nd HDD) on your secondary controller.

If were talking about a SCSI drive, then better talk to somebody else....

[codybear]

http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/

go here and look around..

[CrasHdEfeCT]

mine CD Burner is on Slave, cuz like, i have a split HD. Or maybe, ur CD/RW is slow. mine is 4x4x24x

[Kookstick]

I have the exact same burner you have and it came with the NTI software which worked at copying for a while then slowed down to almost a dead stop like you said. I upgraded the firmware which was a hassle www.mitsumi.com (http://www.mitsumi.com) and then got new software like now i'm using nero at http://www.ahead.de and it does alot better that that NTI junk. Another suggestion would be to get cacheman at www.cacheman.com (http://www.cacheman.com) and use the setting in there for win 98 or win 95 whichever you are using and select the cd burner option for burning only and make sure you restart first, this will setup your cache for copy mode and its alot more smooth process but put your setting in cacheman back to standard or 3d or whatever you use your system for and restart.I hope i'm helping and not sending you on a wild goose chase but i've burned alot of cd's and thats what I do.