burning times and buffer levels

[draboo]

after some confusion,got this cdrw working.found out that if you wanna burn "on the fly" from rom to rw,you cant have them on the same cable,like the instructions recommends. anyway,i would like someone with more knowledge to take a look at these numbers and see if this burner is acting like its supposed to.for i have no idea how fast (or slow) a 16x10x40x is supposed to be. useing nero software: 1. user read buffer stayed at around 50% 2. recorder buffer level between 75 and 95% 3. record time about 3 1/2 min. and verification 3 minutes. writing at 16x, 386 mb. (used a liberace cd```shudder```` so if i screwed up the original cd,no loss. ) thanks.
brad

[NDD]

Seems a little slow to me, I'm not familiar with your burner, neither know if it uses Zone-CLV for burning (burning at top speed just at the end of the media), but you should be able to burn full 700MB disk of data in less then 5 minutes (I do it in about 7 with TEAC CD-W512EB 12/10/32)

Best Regards ...

[elroy]

I think your speeds are ok, but I would put the cd-rw as secondary master and the cd-rom as primary slave. I believe this way they would both be able to read/write at the same time whereas if they are on the same IDE controller they can't run simultaneously. Your buffers don't need to stay full, they just can't run down to zero or you'll get buffer underrun errors.