what is minimum spec for burning on the fly

[rubberduck]

ive put together an old pc 15 gb hard drive,( about 7.5 free) 498 ram , 1.7gig amd athlon, pioneer 108 ,sony dvd rom . i want to use this as second pc for backup but at this spec it seems to be not be able to cope with burning on the fly any help would be appreciated

[PhilEnfield]

First off ..... ideally your DVD-ROM needs to be Primary Slave and your 108 needs to be Secondary Master (i.e. on seperate channels).

Also check your DMA settings in Device Mangler
(IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers/Properties/Advanced)
If either channel is showing PIO mode, change to DMA.

HTH

[backups121]

also rembember that when writing on the fly the reading must be reading at least double the speed that u are burning at, havnt tried it myself cause i would have to read wiv my sony burner and write wiv my 108, and i cant get the sony to read faster than 4x

[myke]

ive got an old 550 mh AMD prosesor with 64 meg of ram and it will copy dvds on the fly fine (at 4 x ) so i dont think its your spec got windows xppro and nero in it aint got much else though it will also do from image but not much point it only has a 10 gig h/drive i have my h/drive and writer on ide 1 and my reader on chanel 2 copying on the fly dosent use much of your resourses so your system should fly if you have probs checK dma enabled and try a different dvd rom liteon or toshiba hope this helps:)