Pioneer DVR-A04 problem, maybe??

[hdog]

My pioneer DVR-A04 is ripping verrrry slow (35 minutes or so to rip a movie). The drive records to cds and dvds very well with no problems but it just is slow as hell in ripping movies. I was wonder if i made it a master instead of a slave if that would speed up the ripping process enough to justify opening the case and messing with it.

800 Mhz
384 ram
20 gigs
DVD-RW (Pioneer Dvr-A04)
Acer CD-RW

Thanks

[SLK001]

Let me guess (I have to guess, because you haven't given me enough info to help you), that you have your DVD-R as a SLAVE on your primary IDE bus and your HD is the master. If so, move your DVD-R as the master on the SECONDARY IDE bus, and change the SECONDARY IDE controller to "DMA, if available" (or whatever, as long as it ISN'T PIO and it has DMA in the wording).

What is happening (I am guessing, again, for the reasons stated above), is that when the DVD reads the data, it has to stop while the HD records (because they are both using the same bus) - thus dropping your thru rate to half (or thereabouts).

But then, I'm just guessing...

[hdog]

My Pioneer drive is a slave on the secondary ide channel with the cdrw as the master on that channel not the hard drive.

[SLK001]

I tried ripping on my DVR-A04 last night. All that I can say, is that it is NOT a speed demon. The fastest that I got was 2X with Smartripper (and that is on a 1.8GHz P4) and that translates to about a half hour for a full 4.7GB DVD. (The math: 4.7GB/(1.38MBps x 2)/3600sph = .47hours). I guess that you are going to have to live with your ripping speed.

[Cheeky Wee]

My experience with the Pioneer DVR-A04 is exactly the same - it is a tortoise when ripping movies.

Why don't you invest in another DVD-ROM drive like the Pioneer DVD-115 or 116/2. They are real speed maestros ... they will rip at speeds up to 8 times.

Pioneer have been playing tricks with the BIOS software .... well that's my view