RIPPING SPEED NOT WHAT IT SEEMS

[mole]

OK - I have tried setting it as secondary master - I have a DMA cable...still no dice
i think the next thing i'm going to try is to remove the region free firmware patch
any other ideas are greatly appreciated
thanks

[jemmopz]

Mole,

You didn't mention which motherboard you are running.

If Via chipset, upgrade to latest 4 in 1 drivers. In the process, tick the enable dma mode during the update process.

Get the drivers from http://www.viahardware.com

[shochan]

ok to speed up the ripping progress get DVD Decoder at http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd and its in the software, ripping section. It seems to go alot faster than smartripper.

[Sefy]

I hope i'm not barging in on anyone here, just want to offer my 2 cents and 2 dollar worth of ideas

mole, i've got nearly the same system as you do (Pioneer 16x, 384mb RAM, and T-Bird 1ghz) so I should be able to help you out.

First, If you can, get rid of the 8gb IDE, it is slowing down both your Hard disc drives! which means it is also slowing down the transfer from your DVD to your HDD! which doesn't really help if you know what I mean.

Secondly, DVD Master, CDRW Secondary, why ? cause CDRW is slower, and the DVD is UDMA66.

Thirdly, use 80 IDE conductor cabels it DOES help and it DOES increase speed.

Fourth, Get VIA 4in1 4.32 Final Drivers from the VIA homepage, DON'T go back to the Region Coded Firmware!

If after all these you STILL can't rip fast, get rid of XP!

[Vejita-sama]

I have a similar problem, but and using the (cheap) Delta 12x drive. I most likely don't have a 80 IDE/DMA cable thou (using old IDE cable).

Primary master WD 60GB 7200rpm
Secondary Master Delta 12x DVD-ROM
Secondard Slave 4gb Maxtor (old HD, I think 5400rpm)

Have DMA turned on for the DVD-ROM, smartripper jumps from 0.9-1.3x to 3.2-3.4x, back and forth, back and forth the whole time?! I just got the drive today, so I'm still trying a few different settings.

Sefy I'll try it without the old HD (4GB Maxtor, which I just use a swap/temp file) and get a newer IDE cable and see what happens.

[statuspending]

go SCSI!!!!

[mole]

ok - it seems i have a "stable" install of XP this time
Device Manager reports the IDE that the CD/DVD drives on as having DMA enabled -
basically i did all of the above mentioned stuff (except for ditching the 8 gig - i need it for now) and it didnt work.
But i did upgrade my BIOS. And now, even though the speed goes up & down, it now averages around 4x and goes up to 8x
considerably better.
For anybody with the ABIT Kt7/Kt7 Raid boards - check out this site - TONS of helpful info.

http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kt7/kt7faq.htm

Sefy - how is the 8 gig slowing me down if its on Primary Master IDE and the DVD is on Secondary IDE? Please explain.

Also - i removed my WIN TV PCI card and freed up an IRQ, I read something about ACPI causing too many IRQ to be shared, slowing things up.

[nielse16]

This isn't going to help you guys, but it may help someone else like myself who was having problems.

http://dvguide.sharbor.com/toasternt/support/win2k-upgrade.html

Enabling DMA in Windows 2000
DMA support is included in Windows 2000 however it is not enabled for the devices by default and so requires configuration. Enabling DMA if supported will result in performance gains.

Right click on My Computer and select Properties
Select the Hardware tab and select 'Device Manager'
Expand 'IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers'
Right click on 'Primary IDE Channel' (and secondary if available)
Select 'Advanced Settings'
For Device 0 and Device 1 under Transfer Mode select 'DMA if available'
Click OK
Click OK to the main system properties
Click OK to reboot the computer

[Sefy]

mole, the reason the 8gb is slowing down the transfer is not because it's on a diffrent IDE channel, but because it is slowing down the copying even if you would be copying to a newer IDE drive which is faster, as it slows the newer one as well.

[shochan]

Just another word onthis topic.

When someone markets a dvdrom or even a cdrom as 12x, They mean 12x on the outer ring and a hella lot slower twoards the center.