Ripping DVDs with Smart Ripper

[fujie]

I just recently followed the tutorial on Ripping a DVD with smart ripper, the one done by Sefy on the Transformers Movie. From the screenshot displayed for the ripping details in smart ripper, it showed a speed of 12 kb/s, and a DVD speed of 9.0x. I understand these speeds depend on the specs of the computer.
I have an Athlon 1.4 GHz (226 FSB), 512 MB DDR RAM, and a 16x/40x Pioneer DVD/CD ROM. And my speeds seem a little low, 1.6-1.8 kb/s, and DVD speed 1.2-1.3x.
Is there anything i can do to speed these up and get faster ripping times?

[Vejita-sama]

make sure you have DMA enabled for your DVD-ROM and if necessary your on your MB.

[fujie]

hey thanx, i got UDMA working for my DVD rom, and its alot faster now...
but i have another problem when i goto open the IFO file in DVDx, i get an ERROR that says "auth.dll: Can't authenticate drive"
what does this mean?

[VideoGuy]

Also try this, jumped me from 1.2X max to 6.5X max in Smart:

Set drives to DMA checked (You already did)
Use an (80 pin?) UDMA IDE cable! Without that,
the DMA settings only offer partial advantage!
(Tiger Direct can get you the UDMA cable, its
got waaay more wires in the ribbon!)

HTH