My drive reads SLOW

[ArtOfLosingMFZB]

I have a Sony DRU-810A crossflashed to a BenQ 1040. When ripping a movie with DVD Decrypter it takes around 1 hour to rip the DVD. Is it supposed to be going that slow? How do I speed it up? And it also writes slow, never going past 1.4x even though i set it on higher speeds. I use QSuite to tweak it too and enable the overspeed option but nothing is different. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

[edlav]

Make sure that DMA is enabled. You can use Nero InfoTool

[ArtOfLosingMFZB]

it's off, how do i turn it on?

[Krispy Kritter]

In XP, you go into hardware devices and locate your IDE controller, there should be a primary and a secondary. Open properties and there should be a check box for "use DMA if available", just check the box and reboot.

[ArtOfLosingMFZB]

umm what if DMA if available is already on and the current transfer mode still says "PIO". is there a way I can change that current transfer mode?

[redwudz]

If you can't change to DMA mode, go back to Device Manager and unistall the IDE channel that the burner is on. Reboot and it will reinstall and reset the mode. You shouldn't have any drives that are PIO mode. They should be DMA 2-4 for most DVD drives.

If a DVD drive fails when reading about 5 times in a row, the OS will revert it to PIO mode. Happens all the time.

[ArtOfLosingMFZB]

i uninstalled the IDE Channel and when i rebooted the computer and it reloaded the devices, the DVD-Burner was set on PIO Only so I changed it to DMA and reset the computer. And now I'm in the same place as before, DMA if available is enabled but for some damn reason, it still says PIO on the current transfer. Does my drive just not support DMA?

[redwudz]

I was afraid of that. It happens occasionally. That's sometimes a little more complicated to fix. Usually just reseting the channel fixes it.

You also want to make sure you have a 80 conductor IDE cable to the drive. If the size of the wires in it look the same as the floppy drive, it may be a 40 conductor. But if you had DMA working in the past, it's probably OK, and then you might have to use a different method.

It may need a change in the registry to restore DMA. Take a look at this page for a more involved method that may fix the problem:

http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDMA.htm

[ArtOfLosingMFZB]

that link didn't fix the problem but i suspect that i probably have a 40 conductor. I guess i'll have to take care of that in the near future

[Krispy Kritter]

You may also want to check the BIOS. Some BIOS will allow you to adjust the speed, if it is set to PIO in the BIOS, then XP will do the same.