DVD Slow Rip Speed Problem

[Mike8007]

I have a Lite-On 411s and a Pioneer 16x DVD ROM drive. Both rip at a speed of 1.6x, even though they should rip much faster. I have WIN98SE 356 mb of rdram, pentium 4, geforce 3 ti. My computer is way over the min requirments yet i still have no idea why it rips so slow. I turned DMA on my hard drive but can't figure out how to turn it on on my recorder and dvd rom drives. I went to device manager and DMA was not there.

Can anyone help me with these two problems please?

[SaSi]

The 1.6x ripping speed indicates the drives operate under PIO mode.

To enable DMA you need to go to Device Manager, System, display the devices tree and go to the IDE controllers, primary and secondary.

You will see two settings for each controller, one for each device.

If any is indicating PIO Mode only, change it to DMA and save the settings.

You will need to repboot.

The Pioneer should be giving you at least 4x ~ 8x with dual layer CSS protected disks.

[Mike8007]

I went to where you said and there is no option to check DMA or PIO. I have WIN98SE if that helps. I was able to switch my hard disk to DMA, but there isn't an option under hard disk controllers or for my burner. Help please!