Why would this be so slow?!?

[bgmagic]

I have an AMD 1.4 Ghz, 256 Ram, 30 gb HD, 6Xdvd rom (also tried with a 16x DVD rom too). I have used smart ripper and it took 40 min to rip a 80 min movie. DVD 2AVI (to make the d2v file) took 1 hour 15 min. I don't even want to know how long tmpeg is going to take. Anyone know why this would take that long on my system? Thanks

[ccngo]

What kinda hd u got, speed, brand? Do you have it set to DMA?

[bgmagic]

That did it! I turned on DMA for everything and it is ripping fast. I wonder if that will help when I convert it to a d2v file. do you think? Also what does dma do exactly? Thanks a lot!

[vladik_17]

if your motherboard have via chipset, download this:
http://www.viatech.com/download/drivers/4in1432v.zip
it improved me encoding speed in cce

[ccngo]

DMA=direct memory access
Makes the hard drive seek info faster...i think...
Using dvd2avi will be faster witht dma on.

[DiViNeLeFT]

DMA allows drives such as dvd-rom or hard drives to access your RAM directly instead of going to the cpu first...

[ktnwin]

DMA allows the drive to transfer directly from the HDD buffer to the PC RAM at 33MB, 66MB or 100MB per second (remember they are called UDMA-33, 66 or 100 for that reason).

If DMA is not turned ON, the drive will transfer data to the system (using the CPU power !!!) at much slower than 16MB/sec (which is the max for non-DMA). Due to the CPU involvment, there are software overhead, interrupt overhead that causes the transfer to be really slow.

[terencehwang]

How can I enabled my HD's DMA?

I have 5 hard drives, 2 of them have DMA box enabled. But the other 3 don't even have the option to enable the DMA.

C:\ (maxtor? 5400) is primary master --- DMA enabled
D:\ (maxtor 5400) is primary slave --- no option for DMA at all
E:\ (maxtor 5400) is on the 1st ide (controller card),set as master --- no option for DMA
F:\ (maxtor 5400) is on the 1st ide (controller card), slave --- no option for DMA
G:\ (maxtor 5400)is on the 2nd ide (controller card), master --- DMA enabled

Is there any way I can make the DMA enabled for those D:, E:, F: drives?

Thanks.

[Shabubu]

Please tell me you have some of those drives in a RAID configuration.... please

[terencehwang]

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Please tell me you have some of those drives in a RAID configuration.... please
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Raid? No, I don't think so. ^_^

I just used a controller card for the HD. I have no idea how to Raid the drives. ^_^

[Shabubu]

Have a look at http://www.tomshardware.com, he has stuff on that somewhere. RAID and DMA