won't rip faster than 2X

[bni124]

I have a lite on 166s and have been ripping dvds in about 6 to 20 minutes for a while now. But now it won't rip any faster then 2X. Is there something wrong with my drive?

[Gees]

The Lite on is a burner? I don't have one, but I can say best advice seen here is not to use your burner for ripping at all.

Most advise to rip from DVDrom drive. That that'll extend the (useful) life of your burner.

[garryheather]

Agreed - most burners are locked.

I have a Lite-on 165H DVD-ROM drive and have average rip speeds of between 8x and 12x depending on the disc, sometimes higher on well pressed, clean, single layer media.

[Poppa_Meth]

right click my computer and click properties. go to the hardware tab and open device manager. open you IDE controllers. check the secondary IDE(or whichever your DVD Drive is on) and click properties for it. look at the advance tab. it should be set to Ultra DMA Mode. if its listing PIO as the current mode simply remove the controller and it will prompt you to restart. when it reboots it'll redetect the IDE controller and force windows to try DME again. XP is a pain about this. you usually have to do it every so often as XP keeps chaning it to PIO. If you aren't running XP I'm not sure what the problem may be.

[Mr Grumpy]

I agree with poppa

If XP detects more than a certain number of errors from the drive, it 'throttles back' the data transfer speed to/from the drive. It does this by switching from UDMA to PIO and the easiest way of fixing it is to delete the IDE controller from Device Manager and let XP recreate it. I did once find a reg hack that supposedly cured it, but deleting/recreating isn't too much of a pain, other than it needs a reboot.

It's happened to me about 3 times now on my DVD-ROM - worring thing is that it happened on my system disk last week

[Gurm]

Actually deleting/recreating doesn't even require a reboot in many cases.

But yes the 166S is the followup to the 163/165. It's quieter but not QUITE as fast. However, I usually get 10X+ rip speeds on DVD's, so it's definitely something in your hard disk controller or PIO/DMA settings.

- Gurm