Speed issues with Lite On lh-20a1h

edited May 2007 in Hardware
I purchased this Lite On drive around 3 months ago. At first it started out reading and burning at around 2x max. This kind of shocked me. After the 3 months now it burns around the 5-6x and reads about the same rate. This is well below the specs (20x). I have tried upgrading the only firmware update they have and have tried the drive in a different ide (currently is a slave to my hd) and in a different computer with the same results. Every once in awhile the drive will kick up to like 10-12x once the buffer remains constant...but 99% of the time the buffer is constantly jumping around. I have both the hd and drive set to ultra dma as well. Is there any other setting I could have that would be not allowing my drive to get to its desired speed. Thank you

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2007
    What are your discs rated at?
  • edited May 2007
    well I have used discs rated at 16x for the most part. but have gotten nowhere near 16x
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