Slow Hard drive, CD-Rom, CD-RW!

My hard drive runs at 1.5 mb/sec, my cd-rom is supposibly 44x but runs at 7x, my CD-RW can burn at 48x and read at 48x but it takes 14 mins to burn a cd and it reads at only 14x. Can anyone tell me what's wrong. I've turned ultra dma on and tried to select DMA in the properties of the drives but windows just deselects it when It restarts.

My burner's brand is Imation not sure about the hard drive or cd-rom.

I'm using Nero 5.5 and when It gets to 20% it always has this error "SCSI/ATAPI Command Timeout Error".

My current setup with the drives are:
Primary Master - HDD
Primary Slave - CD-Rom
Secondary Master - CD-RW
Secondary Slave - None

My hard drive is 6 gig and I bought my PC about 4 years ago.
Also my BIOS is an amibios and my motherboard is an SiS 620.

Oh and my OS is Windows 98 SE

Hope I've told you enough about my computer.

Thanks in advance.

First don't believe CD-RW Manufacturers ! They don't mention the exact speed burning at least these days :D .
Connect CDR\CDRW together and set one of them Master and the other one Slave.
after all I prefer this :

Format C:

:D

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Originally posted by Pirate
First don't believe CD-RW Manufacturers ! They don't mention the exact speed burning at least these days :D .
Connect CDR\CDRW together and set one of them Master and the other one Slave.
after all I prefer this :

Format C:

:D

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for ur kind information

CDRW - > secondary master
CR ROM - > secondary slave

is the setting u r talking about then its bit wrong since motherboard bus can not directly interact between primary and secondary of same bus so you might some errors when u r trying to copy a CD...

Cheers...

Have you installed the bus master drivers for your motherboard? Look at your IDE controllers section in the device manager. There should be three listings, primary ide controller, secondary ide controller, and one for Bus Master IDE controller. Without the motherboard driver every thing will crawl in PIO mode.