Burning Speed 2x with 8x media + 16x plextor 740a burner

[Randall]

Hello
Have the latest firmware (1.2) for the plextor 740a. It takes 30 mins to burn a dvd !!!! My old liteon, which is supposed to do 8x, at least does 4x. I use ridata 8x media. Dma is enabled..

Is this a software problem or media ? (have tried at least 2 brands of media)
why are both drives burning slow ?

comp is dual proc amd, win xp, 1.5 gigs ram - lots of power so this is not the issue

Help please
thanks...

[admin]

I'd still recommend to try to use various TDK/Maxell/Memorex/Princo/etc.

[Randall]

tried both my burners with nero - they work like a charm at 8x....
I hate the interface of nero but the 8x is hard to beat if you have a lot of dvd's to do....

any reason why this won't work with deepburner ??? I mean liteon and plextor are maintstream drives....

thanks