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From: Virgil2U on 14 Dec 2006 20:12
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:36:57 -0800, "Cari" <NewsGroups(a)coribright.com>
wrote:

>
>"Virgil2U" <dmoffat(a)aol.com> wrote in message
>news:3e3e1$457f64e3$4831d05d$3260(a)FUSE.NET...
>>I have a Samsung TS-H522U Writemaster 16X DVD burner and just got a new
>>Gateway computer system that I had installed this into and set the drive on
>>cable select on the same cable as the current DVD/CDRW drive that came with
>>the system. The problem I have is that I can only burn DVD-R media at 4X
>>and not at 12X as the drive is capable of, Should I set the drives up as
>>master and slave so that I can then burn properly? The DVD-R media I have
>>is 16X so it should be no problem to burn at 12X but am not allowed to by
>>either DVD Decryptor or Nero.
>>
>Ensure it's an 80 wire cable and not an older style 40 wire one. Also
>ensure DMA is enabled.

Any way I can find out it is a 80 wire cable? It is a new Gateway
system so I imagine it has a newer style cable.
From: Rod Speed on 14 Dec 2006 22:27
Virgil2U <dmoffat(a)aol.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:36:57 -0800, "Cari" <NewsGroups(a)coribright.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> "Virgil2U" <dmoffat(a)aol.com> wrote in message
>> news:3e3e1$457f64e3$4831d05d$3260(a)FUSE.NET...
>>> I have a Samsung TS-H522U Writemaster 16X DVD burner and just got a
>>> new Gateway computer system that I had installed this into and set
>>> the drive on cable select on the same cable as the current DVD/CDRW
>>> drive that came with the system. The problem I have is that I can
>>> only burn DVD-R media at 4X and not at 12X as the drive is capable
>>> of, Should I set the drives up as master and slave so that I can
>>> then burn properly? The DVD-R media I have is 16X so it should be
>>> no problem to burn at 12X but am not allowed to by either DVD
>>> Decryptor or Nero.
>>>
>> Ensure it's an 80 wire cable and not an older style 40 wire one.
>> Also ensure DMA is enabled.
>
> Any way I can find out it is a 80 wire cable?

You could get real radical and count the wires.

> It is a new Gateway system so I imagine it has a newer style cable.

Yep, guaranteed to be.


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