The reading took 16 minutes after I put the burner and cd-rom on seperate ide channels. The writing took 49 minutes. These are the times for me to copy the Sims Hot Date with safedisc 2. For the read it says calculating optimum power or something like that. The buffers fill up then deplete. Then it says writing image session 1. It takes awhile for it to get to 4%, then it stays there forever, then it quickly finishes. I would really like to know if anybody has had this same problem or if this is normal.

i think the the reason for the long start has to do with it and safedisk 2

I think it all has to do with your reader & burner. I believe some say their burner would actually be a better reader than their other CD-ROM on the same computer as reader. I believe that's the case for me when I was doing SeriousSam2. Took me up to an whole hr to read with my Kenwood 72TrueX and came out with a messed up image. Then it only took under 20 min's to read with my burner Lite-On 40125S :D
Of course, this was on the same setting to read "4x" with some fast error skip settings. Delay is also added when you can't read/burn as fast due to making a readable copy :)

this is probably happening because the procedure stack some way and when it unstacked it was done...so that's i think the explanation

what do you mean the procedure stacked? How do I fix this?

it stacks...you know,moving the mouse but nothing happens and if you start hitting the butons the central is screaming....can't fix it it just happens sometimes...

I don't do shit when burning i just leave my cpu alone. i also shutdown windows messanger and my screensaver. The only task running is clone cd. Did I buy crappy hardware? or am i just having a software issue??????

probably it's the hardware.......

so an asus cd-rom and Plexwriter 24x10x40a is crappy. Then what should I have bought?

check your system resources during a burn, see whats tied up.

i wasn't saying that you hardware version or type is crappy is was saying that your hardware may have a fault or something.....