Problems copying CD-R discs...

[MrEno]

Hi,

First of all, the following topic concerns plain discs and is not at all related to protected disc of any kind.

The problem I have here happens with my 2 systems who both behave very strangly and I know many people might have the same trouble.

Thing is, when doing an "on the fly" disc copy with whatever software, well I tried CloneCD, CDRWin, Nero and CD Mate, and each of them takes forever to do the job even if one of my burner is a 32X it burns like a 16 or even 8X and drops the read buffer to zero!

What goes on is easier to see by using Nero disc copy because you can easily see the "read buffer" and the "write buffer" behavior. The read buffer slowly goes up to 100% and after a little while of burning (around 6% or a bit more) it starts dropping down to 0%. Everyone having the "buffer underrun" protection will just burn without problem but it will take a lot longer.

Now after many tests with different pc's, different burner, different CD-ROM reader (52X and up) and finally with different media I found out that the problem only arises when you are making a copy of an already burned CD-R; if you use a factory made CD everything will go just fine!!! I even asked friends to test this on their machine and they had the same result. And of course if you burn a cd from data that is on a HD (image or files), no problem also.

I completely removed my ASPI, rebooted, re-installed and check a fresh installation but it won't change anything.

So, does this rings a bell to anyone who could help?

Thanks,
Mike