My DVD burner is dying. I checked that the NEC dual layer drive is cheap and
also has good comment. I am not too confident with it because I tried a 2x
NEC & Panasonic DVD drive in the past. For some unknown reasons, the CPU
load is heavy when the drives were writing data. It never happened to LG,
Toshiba or Pioneer drives. Is it because of the cache size or something
else? Is the new NEC drive a good buy?

"leo" <someone@somewhere.net> wrote in message
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If your CPU is being used excessively while using a burner, i'd suspect that
the drive is not operating in DMA mode but in PIO mode.

I had this problem recently - my LG4081B taking CPU usage to between 85% to
95% while burning.
I'd installed the incorrect chipset drivers for my motherboard and the drive
was operating in PIO mode - it usually operates in DMA mode 2.
I tried to uninstall the incorrect drivers and install the correct chipset
drivers but it didn't fix it.
I reinstalled Windows XP and installed the correct chipset drivers and the
drive operated in DMA mode 2 - with just a minimal CPU usage.

Martin.

"Martin" <zedolf@o2.co.uk> wrote in message
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I just got the drive. It works very well. I wonder how expensive those dual
layer DVD+R cost!