Originally Posted by MacClipper

I had problems running the TDK 1280 on my external Newmotion Oxford 911 box when burning the Imation 8x (Ricoh) media at 12x too. It kept slowing down to 6x, not even 8x but the funny thing was that 8x burning on the same media was fine so I ripped it out and installed it internally.

Then I realised that I had not updated the Oxford 911 firmware since I bought it and promptly took it from version 2.7 to 3.8 - too lazy to test if that helped now tho'.