LOW read speed, HELP!

[elvarb]

I just bought the sony dru-500a, and it is reading at 1.9x, so I just start using my sony ddu-1611 dvd-rom as a reader but it is the same there (but it is 16x/40x reader). What is the problem, what about those dma settings, I adjusted them in second ide bridge settings, am I supposed to make adjust of this dma somewhere else? It takes me 30 minutes to rip one fu**ing dvd, HELP please. One thing else, someone told me to disable dma before i upgrade my firmware, is that true? I just upgraded to 1.0g.
Thanks

[elvarb]

Isss, 70 readers and no help, anyway I fixed the problem and now I'm ripping at 14.8X on single layer disc so 4.7 Gig takes me about 5 minutes to ripp.
Thanks for nothing, lol.

[flaninacupboard]

Please explain how you fixed the problem, in case anyone else runs into it.

[Gazorgan]

Yeah, it's a common problem that often doesn't have a solution. How'd you do it?

[elvarb]

Well, since everyone told me to turn on dma, that is what i did, but, but. On xp you can just choose "enable dma when possible" or something like that, that was just not enoug, because my drive was running on some pio, dunno what that is though. Those adjustments are made in the device manager under ide bus settings. So as I said this was not enough, so i threw out the driver for the dvd player, and restarted the computer, then it went to the right mode, dma. To begin with it is always best to have the newest ide bus drivers for your motherboard so that i did at the beginning, and the latest thing I did was to improve the speed on my hard drive so it could write faster to it, and it improved about 4 times on the hard-drive,,,I´ll explain that later...if there is any interest in that...So as I said I´m ripping at the speed of 14.8X just on my first ripp so I will write again here if that will change. On the other hand I´m having problem with my dvd-writer, sony dru-500a, that one just rippes at about 2X, but i dont mind now, but writes at very low speed, it takes it about 50 minutes to write full dvd, I´m using 1.0gfirmware, and installed it with dma enabled, do anyone have any suggestions about improving that??

[kitty]

The Sony DRU-500a is firmware limited to ripping a pressed DVD video at 2x. That's why many keep a DVD-ROM drive in their computer to read from and the Sony to burn. It can read a DVD-+R at much higher rates though.

[ninja_pimp]

I need help badly. I went out and bought a cendyne model 85 16 dvd rom reader but ti wont go past 2x.
i use dvd dycrptyer 3.14 and it says reading at 2x, takes about 30minj to copy disc to hdd.
i went to samsung website cuz thats the hardware brand name and applied new firmware f404. but still same problem.
then applied adaptec aspi layer 4.7.1.2 but still same slow readf speed, even after several reboots.

i did a windows registry to increase non paged pool size but same problem......hoe to read near 16x with a 16x dvd rom reader?
in winxp i can't set DMA on it, its auto setup

[pimp97max]

lots of the newer DVD-ROM drives limit reading of CSS-encrypted DVDs to 2x, to try and prevent people from backing up, so that's why even though your drive may be 16x, it may still be capped at 2x for all the encrypted movies...i need to get the Lite-on 16x drive now, seeing as how the DVD-ROM in my computer just went dead..anyone have some good deals on it?

[elvarb]

ninja_pimp,,,as I said in my post, to begin with adjust dma when available is not enough (pio mode can still be in use, see below dma adjustment) but after that, uninstall the driver for your dvd drive and reboot. That might change it to another mode. If that doesn´t help, reply here.

[ninja_pimp]

I spent about 3 hours with my new bought cendyne 16x samsung dvd rom. It calims 16x read but it never went past 2x.

confused and dismayed i pushed on. I then updated the firmware, but still same slow 2x, then I applied the adaptec aspi layer 4.7.1.2 ans still same problem.
I went into device manager and played with the DMA, it was set to use if available. There was no way for me in winXP pro to manually force it to DMA. After playing with the dma settings and rebooting same problem.

I went back to the computer and returned the dvdrom reader, telling them it does nto do what it claims.

I asked the sales person to explain to me why it wou'd not go past 2x and here is what he said, digital media/audio/data extraction is not the same at 16x playback. He said the unit can do 16x playback. This even confused me more, is playback not the same as reading?

I still don't understand why I can't read data off a dvd-r onto my hdd at near 16x??

I tried a retail dvd movie, crappy 2x speed, then i tried a copied dvd movie which has no macrovision (i can use win explorer to copy files off it) and same 2x speed.

I'm going to find a lite-on 16x dvd rom reader, and since its OEM its not sold in compusa or bestbuy simply cuz its oem, but from what i hear from ppl, they say lite-on is the only 16x dvdrom reader that actually reads past 2x.

[kitty]

I have a Lite-On LTD163 & it works well. I have tried Nero and some tests will test a CSS disk & others won't. It appears to read at 16x. Better than trying to get my Sony to read which is locked on pressed discs at 2x.

[elvarb]

Well everything is working well at the moment, my dvd-rom (sony sped 16/40) is reading dual layer at up to 8x and single layer up to 15X. With 4.3 Gig single layer disk it takes me just above 5 minutes to ripp. After I enabled the dma (dma when available), I uninstalled the dvd-rom driver and restarted the computer,,,, this was crucial for me. Also it is best to have newest motherboard ide bus driver. At last, and this is plain funny, the reason my sony dru-500a writer took 55 minutes to write, was that the dvd disk I bought was 1X, except the salesman told me it was 2X, but silly anyway. So at the moment with full single layer dvd it takes 5:15 to rip, and 22 minutes to write,,so just under 30 minutes. Dual layer is about 10 minutes to ripp, 25 to convert, 22 to write, so just under 60 minutes.
p.s. my dvd-rom was stuck at 2X at the beginning and a lot of people told me it would stay that way, but it din't. :P

I'm pretty happy right now, lol.