Pioneer 105 very slow in smart ripper. Help!

[shelbyboy]

Hi folks. Help out a newby. I just purchased a cendyne 209 (Pioneer 105) and installed into my PC last night, replacing a noname DVD player. The DVD player would rip at 7X while the Pioneer maxed out at 1.6X. Granted I loaded no drivers or software, using what I already had installed. Software support for reading should be native in 98SE (I thought). DMA is enabled and the Pioneer is the master on the second IDE. It takes 45 minutes to rip a DVD to the hard drive. Is this normal for this drive? Very disapointing. Any Ideas?
Thanks!
SB

[Treebeard]

Yes thats normal, It is something that dvd writers have to try and deter people from ripping dvd's max ripping is like 2x . It would be better to have your dvd writer & a dvd rom(as slave) in your computer and just use the rom for ripping.

[shelbyboy]

Thanks for the reply. Guess I will put the DVD reader back in but I hate to give up my CDR. The bloody Pioneer is supposed to write at 4x. I would expect it to read at least that fast. At least I know now that it isn't my setup. I havn't tryed the Pioneer for Audio extraction or CD-r speed. Time will tell. !6x isn't hateful if it works.
Anyone know of a way around this slow rip performance? (bios hack maybe?)
SB

[neopunk]

Hello,

the pioneer DVD Writer and the new Toshiba's DVD-roms are limited by the firmware to restrict the ripping to 2X, I don't know if the other new DVD-writers and DVd-ROMs do the same thing.
My old Toshiba DVD-ROM 12x40 extracts at 7 or 8X. If you have a old one, keep it. Or if you can, try to buy a old DVD-ROM 12x40 to someone, you will buy it very cheaper and it will do a better job.

Best regards.

[dreadogg]

Yea I am probally gonna look for a fast ripper myself! Mine does the same thing takes about 25 mins to rip 4.5 Gigs!

[THE RIPPER]

I would never rip with my writer,why stress it.

[shelbyboy]

For now I am stuck with using it as a ripper. I don't want to give up my CDRW drive for a space on the IDE channel. I have two hard drives on the first channel and these two optical drives on the second. Any one know if the new raid capable boards will allow for more than 4 devices to be installed? I am two cheap to buy another IDE adapter.
Thanks!
SB

[Craig Tucker]

Any one know if the new raid capable boards will allow for more than 4 devices to be installed? I am two cheap to buy another IDE adapter.
Thanks!
SB

Yes I have the Epox ep8k3a+. I have 5 hard drives, dvd writer, cd writer and a zip drive.

Buying a PCI ide adapter would be a lot cheaper and a lot less hassle than buying a new motherboard.

[shelbyboy]

I am in the market for a new mother board with the nvidia chip set anyway. So I can assume that the raid doesn't disallow the use of four additional IDE devices?
Can you use the raid controller with two dissimular Hard disks (80 and 40 Gig)
Thanks!
Sb

[Craig Tucker]

You can use the raid channels as regular IDE channels, so you can attach any compatible IDE device, any size hard drives you like.