What DVDRW are you using in your SAM?

I am not completely happy with the speeds writing to DVD via FryingPan and I'm just wondering if there something I can do as in regards to getting a different brand of DVDRW and/or a different type of HD to write from.

I have a brand new 160g Western Digital that hosts workbench and the download directory and a brand new 320g Seagate that hosts storage material and I usually burn from that HD

The DVDRW is a ASUS DRW-2014S1T a drive I know little about and one I wouldn't have probably brought if there were anything else SATA available in the store.

here is the print out of the drives and settings, I noticed an extra setting on the 320g perhaps it's not good? I took someones advise about using GGGG to setenv etc...

idetool -u sii3114ide.device 0
-------------------Unit 0 information------------------------
Flags : $00000187 - present, LBA48 used, supports DMA, ATA, supports cache flush, interrupts used,
Xfer mode : best pio 12 (PIO 4, 16 MB/s) / best dma 70 (UDMA 6, 133 MB/s) / current 70 (UDMA 6, 133 MB/s)
Total blocks : 312581808
Blocksize : 512
Power mode : 2 / idle (ready for operation)
IO1 / IO2 / BMCR @ : $1100 / $110A / $1120

idetool -u sii3114ide.device 1
*** Error opening device sii3114ide.device / unit 1

idetool -u sii3114ide.device 2
-------------------Unit 2 information------------------------
Flags : $000001A7 - present, LBA48 used, supports DMA, ATA, supports acoustic mgmt, supports cache flush, interrupts used,
Xfer mode : best pio 12 (PIO 4, 16 MB/s) / best dma 70 (UDMA 6, 133 MB/s) / current 70 (UDMA 6, 133 MB/s)
Total blocks : 625142448
Blocksize : 512
Power mode : 2 / idle (ready for operation)
IO1 / IO2 / BMCR @ : $1110 / $111A / $1128

idetool -u sii3114ide.device 3
-------------------Unit 3 information------------------------
Flags : $0000011D - present, supports DMA, removable media, ATAPI, interrupts used,
Xfer mode : best pio 12 (PIO 4, 16 MB/s) / best dma 68 (UDMA 4, 66 MB/s) / current 68 (UDMA 4, 66 MB/s)
Total blocks : 0
Blocksize : 0
SCSI devtyp : 5
Packet size : 12
Current medium read speed : x 65535 ('65535' stands for max.)
Current medium write speed : x 65535 (idem)
Power mode : 2 / idle (ready for operation)
IO1 / IO2 / BMCR @ : $1110 / $111A / $1128

when I use say makecd to burn a CD or whatnot it FLIES along... burning a full cd in 3 mins...

any ideas?

I know I haven't given you any ideas about how fast it burns a dvd but lets put it this way, the dead A1 could burn a dvd in under 10mins... this SAM to DVDRW is taking almost 30mins to do the same thing...

edit: just noticed the 320 is running JXFileSystem4 4.33 I was meaning to convert them all back to SFS, perhaps that has some bearing on the matter; just quickly checked, all partitions are 512 blocks and sporting 1024 buffers

the partitions on the 160 use SFS and they would be the same settings and I seem to remember having better speed from that HD when burning... not entirely sure though

I'm a little confused here because I thought SATA was a good step forward, perhaps it's just the same as IDE just a different plug? you'd think everything would be perfectly sorted these days

@Slayer

Probably obviuous but have you checked the DVD disks themselves to see at what speeds they can be burnt and also the speed settings in FryingPan?

@Slayer

it takes me 30-40 minutes to do a dvd-r too using Frying Pan on my Sam. I dont know where the problem is.

@TiredOfLife

Yes I have and no worries, always look at the obvious! It's a good starting point for the not so obvious? hmm

@jahc

at least we're shipmates

I've always used TDK16x DVD-Rs

Lets see if anything else turns up

@Slayer
have you not tried AmiDVD on OS4 Depot

@AJS

I tried it briefly last night, it does warrant further use

@Slayer

Fastest disks I've got are 4x speed, so half an hour would be right.

Need to get some faster disks to test.

@TiredOfLife
i'm using sony's dvd disks and at 4x it takes about 15 minutes with amidvd.
the hard disk is seagate 500gb. i don't remember the dvdrw brand for the moment...

@Slayer

Yes, I usually use AmiDVD and Make CD, depending on my burning requirements, as I find Frying Pan too slow for my needs.

Cheers.

@All

Just for clarity, how is everyone testing this?
Lots of files on the fly or burning an image to disk?

No idea if that makes a difference or not.

@Gebrochen

Yes but on the A1 and burning to that DVDRW Drive with Frying Pan it would burn a full DVD in 8 mins

Always used 16x TDK DVD-R

I am going to try and get the same brand of DVDRW for the SAM but SATA

If that doesn't work then I give up

Thanks for your supportive post

@TiredOfLife

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Yip! I certainly find 'on the fly' is certainly slower to alot slower than buring say 5x700meg files. If you created an image first I dear say that would be even quicker than the 5x700meg but then of course, you add the time it took to create the image and the 5 images would come out on top in the end, I would think, anyway

Has anyone spoken to FryingPan's author about it's (apparently) slow speed on the Sam440?

@ChrisH

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Slayer can't put his hand up

Slayer thinks Gebrochen should probably be the one for this since Gebrochen has a history of speed test considerations, via MakeCD and AmiDVD writing preferences