Ripping got slow??

[volgo]

My dvd-rom suddenly rips dvd's in only 2.1x, it doesn't increase speed at all. It did before, so something must have happened, (maybe i've accidently change some setting somwhere??) By the way, my dvd-burner rips at the same low speed... Anyone know what could be done to fix this?? Thanx in advance!! Its a Samsung DVD-ROM and a Pioneer 106 writer..

[Poppa_Meth]

Are you running Windows XP? If so right-click on My Computer and click properties. go to the hardware tabe and open the device manager. expand your IDE controller list. Right click on either your secondardy IDE controller and choose properties. go to the advanced tab. this is most likely the controller where your DVD drives are located. the transfer mode shoud be set to DMA if available and the current mode should be Ultra DMA 2. if its set to PIO instead then that is your problem. XP likes to switch it on you from time to time. just another bug in the system. to fix it Right click on the IDE controller and choose uninstall. it will prompt you to reboot. when you reboot windows will have to redetect the IDE channel and will be forced to try DMA mode again. that should fix your problem. you may need to do this to the Primary channel too if by some reason you have a DVD drive on that.