Nero and x12 plextor

[Sparkie]

I've been running a x12 sped plextor for a few months now with Nero 5. The problem is that the buffer keeps empties and stops it burning untill the buffers fill again. When I've done a speed test on my Hard Drive it says its 5000Kb/sec, x12 speed writes at 1800Kb/sec so can anyone shed any light onto why my buffers are struggling. I don't have anything running at the same time as I'm burning.

Please help
SImon

[Mr. B.]

What ide channel is your writer connected to? If you want to burn data from your harddrive, you should have your writer at a different controller than your harddrive. To make it perfect, there shouldn't be any other drive connected to the same controller. If you have a mainboard with one ide controller (-> 4 channels) use the following configuration:

Primary Master: HDD
Secondary Master: CD-ROM drive
Secondary Slave: Writer

The other side of the coin: Now you might have problems doing copies from cd's "on the fly" (directly from your cd-rom drive).
So if you have two controllers, connect the writer to the second controller, so that it got a controller all for himself.

Maybe that helps. But also make sure that you use the latest version of Nero (check their webpage) or try using different software.

[Wayniac]

Are you attmpting to burn AUDIO tracks, by any chance?