Copying from a 16x DVD Drive to a 12x8x32 CD-RW almost always cause errors! Help!

[ILUVBC2]

Does anyone know why everytime I try to copy a cd from my DVD drive to my CD-RW drive, I almost always get errors when going through the testing phase (which I use faithfully now). Sometimes, changing the record speed from 12x to 8x will make it work. Sometimes, I have to go down as low as 4x. I would like to really understand why this happens. That was my purpose in ordering a higher speed cd drive than the write speed on the CD recorder. Of course, this could be the problem...that the DVD drive is reading too fast for the CD burner. I would appreciate anybody having an explanation of this subject.

Taking you literally that you are burning a CD-RW as distinct from a CD-R, normal CD-RWs will only burn properly at 4x. I could go into the technical explanation if you need it .. it's all about the time required to melt the compound making up the data 0s & 1s and pass to the next bit.

If it;s a CD-R, then could media be a problem?

[Wayniac]

Perhaps it's the way you're drives are connected on the IDE bus? Secondary master = DVD, slave = writer is possibly the best way of connecting.

Also, are you trying straight disc-to-disc copying? If so, better to make an ISO image first, then burn that image at whatever speed you like. Buffer underruns are the common error when trying to copy disc-to-disc. You can alter the disc cache in CLoneCD, but how much this will help your writer's buffer I can't say - perhaps someone could tell you more.

Sorry I don't know more.

Happy trails.