Windows automatically tries to use DMA if available and i'm pretty sure he hasn't jiggered with the ******. So that means its running in forced PIO mode more than likely due to the fact it has an old version of ACPI.
ACPI stands for advanced control power interface or some shit, basically its what makes it so when you hit the power button it can be programmed to suspend or whatnot and when you shutdown your computer it turns off automatically, chump shit). The old versions of ACPI were buggy, you pretty much have to reinstall windows to change your machine to a standard (non-acpi) machine.
Take my advice, put it on the primary channel as a slave and it will be fine. As another possibility you could have been infected with a worm which is eating up all your CPU cycles (your entire machine would run unbearably slow though).
Just for comparisons sake, I've burned discs with no buffer underrun problems before at 16x on a 450 mhz amd k6-2 which .. is *very* slow, no clicks in the audio, no pops, no strange sweeeping noises, perfect discs. Everytime my friends have problems with burning discs it usually has to do with this problem. It's surprisingly common in somewhat older machines when you just throw in a cd writer and have windows xp or 2000 installed.
My neighbor was sold a brand new prebuilt machine off of ebay about a year ago with this problem only it was a bit more severe (would lock up constantly etc.) VIA chipsets are particularly notorious for it.
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