FYI: DVD ripping speeds

[Dubber]

I have recently bought a DVD ROM for my puter and tried to rip a movie that I have on DVD and made some discoveries along the ways.

So, there it goes:
I got a dual-boot system running Win98 and Win2000Pro. In Win98 I had ripping speeds of up to 7.5x with no tweaking or whatever. When in Win2000, the speed was about 1.7x-1.9x...
Then I enabled DMA in Win2000 and the speed jumped up to 7.7x right away. Mind you, I got no speedy system by any means and am happy with 7.5x anyway.

In Win2K, to enable DMA:

Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager>IDE ATA/ATAPI>Primary IDE Channel>Properties>Advanced Settings>Device 0>Transfer Mode>DMA if available.

Repeat for Device 1 and Secondary IDE Channel too.

Reboot, enjoy.

[Dubber]

Oh, yeah, DVD is LG 16x model GDR-8161B.