IDE bus question

[gaving]

I have a DVDROM(master) and CDRW(slave) on the secondary IDE bus. I was told that in order to avoid buffer underruns I should put the DVD as a slave on the primary IDE bus along with the HD. Will this help as even with 256MB of RAM I am still getting underruns.
Cheers

[Wayniac]

I think you alread have it the right way my friend: DVD=master, CDRW=slave.

Have you tried the following:

1. Defragment your hard-drive
2. Optimise your Hard-disk cache
3. Create a disc image before burning
4. Disable any programs that run in the background when Win starts!
5. Keep other program usage as low as possible, when burning
6. Lower record speed

Let us know how ya got on. All the best,

Wayne

Hope this helps

[Sparkie]

I have the same problems, and also have the same set up. I've tried defragging the hard drive, writing to an image file first and all that stuff, but still no joy. It used to work fine but for some reason unknown to myself it no longer does.

How do you optimise your hard drive cache mate ?? thats the only thing I haven't tried yet!

Cheers