slow burning after 1 write

[Tunnah]

i'm gonna smash my pooter

i've been having some weird problems lately

latest one is horrible burning speeds - the first disc will burn fine, but any after it only burn at 4x
when i restart the system another will burn at full speed then next 1 will be 4x..

aaaaand

i'm currently watching an xvid and there is a ****load of activity coming from my HD, i pause it, and it stops. could there be something wrong along the way of buffers ? what would be the best tool to test my burner or HD ?

burner is SATA, same as HDs
all channels are on DMA mode 5

burner is a Samsung/TSSTCorp CDDVDW SH-S203B

o and another 1..when i take a disc out after a burn i get like a 10s system lock up, same for when i put a new disc in..i've had this before with other systems when putting a disc in, but not for that long and never seen it when ejecting a disc

[gle0002]

i'm gonna smash my pooter

i've been having some weird problems lately

latest one is horrible burning speeds - the first disc will burn fine, but any after it only burn at 4x
when i restart the system another will burn at full speed then next 1 will be 4x..

aaaaand

i'm currently watching an xvid and there is a ****load of activity coming from my HD, i pause it, and it stops. could there be something wrong along the way of buffers ? what would be the best tool to test my burner or HD ?

burner is SATA, same as HDs
all channels are on DMA mode 5

burner is a Samsung/TSSTCorp CDDVDW SH-S203B

o and another 1..when i take a disc out after a burn i get like a 10s system lock up, same for when i put a new disc in..i've had this before with other systems when putting a disc in, but not for that long and never seen it when ejecting a disc

Try upgrading to a new burner.
Regarding your buffer problem, have you got decent RAM?
Having more RAM can help.

[Funkstar]

I've heard of problems with recent Samsung drives. there was a thread just last week about someones drive not liking any Dual Layer disks someone was using.

Have a look for the latest firmware for the drive, this may help a lot. Google for "SH-S203B firmware" and you should get somewhere. there also appears to be some discussion of this drive on CDFreaks, so that could be a good place to look.

[Tunnah]

i have the latest firmware (use their auto updater)
i have 2gigs of RAM
and its a brand new drive
pah in all my other systems i've always used plextor, but they were out of stock at the time i built this one
gonna just order a plextor one from somewhere else

[Tunnah]

oo okie i've figured something
i think its the HD i'm burning from
burning stuff from my seagate does it at 4x until i reboot
but if i burn from my WD Raptor boot drive it goes at 11x