Re: CD recording speeds
Cornish
I had the same problem as you for ages before I was informed how to fix it. It was all down to the DMA settings as Saab says. Right click My Computer, then Hardware, then Device Manager. Find IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers and expand it. Right click either the primary or secondary IDE Channel, then Properties. Click the Advanced Settings tab and make sure that the Transfer Mode is set to 'DMA if available'.
If you know which channel your burner is on it helps but setting both primary and secondary channels to DMA should cause no problems as long as whatever is connected to the other channel isn't very old.