how long should it take to spin up a cdr disc?

[Eagle]

you dont need to become unfriendly...

i highly recommend you: return that cyberdrive and get one of the 'newer' lite-ons ! the 24x, 32x and 40x models are cheap, fast and they burn everything! or if you want a real quality-product get the new plextor 40x which is of course more expensive.

and for your dma-problem: take a look at the bios, maybe dma is switched off there, if this is the case then even win xp can not activate dma. always check the bios first and after that your OS !