xj-hd166s Ripping Speed

[kizer8]

I just purchased a liteon xj-hd166s 16x dvdrom drive hoping it would rip faster than my 2x pioneer. I was disappointed to find it is only ripping at 4x. I am running windows xp pro sp1 with the drive as the master and a sony 500a as the slave on the secondary channel. I have 2 ide hard drives on the primary channel. All my ide drives are using a transfer mode of ultra DMA mode 2. I have also installed the forceaspi v4.6 drivers. I have updated the firmware to the most recent D166SDS1A firmware. I have tried ripping 2 dvds (the man with the golden gun & scarface). I have tried both dvd decrypter and smartripper with both the same results. Is there anything else I can do to make the drive rip faster?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.
Kizer

[kenshin himura]

i heard its faster if dvd writer is master, and rom is slave. try it and see what happens

[kizer8]

Thanks. I will try that. Anybody else have any ideas.

[kcalczab]

have a look round here - i have exactly the same drives and version of xp and i get speeds on x15

just search for liteon 166s and all will be revealed

defense knows his stuff - thank god

[kizer8]

How is your drive installed. Slave or Master to your hard drive?

Thanks.
Kizer

[kcalczab]

its not, its cable select (or whatever it is)

[kizer8]

Do you have it on the same channel. I two ide hd on the primary channel and then my liteon and sony 500a on the secondary channel.

Thanks.
Kizer

[kcalczab]

yep

thats how it the old rom came installed and i just swopped them over

have you looked on here for other ways - there is an amazing good thread with replies from defense about how to do it

[kizer8]

Do you know the thread?

[kcalczab]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=147915&highlight=

[kizer8]

thanks for all your help.