Super slow ripping [need help]

[lakini18]

I have 2 DVD drives in my computer. My DVD-burner, and my DVD-ROM. I am using winxp, and both channels are set to Ultra DMA mode 2. When decrypting a DVD using dvddecrypter or smartripper, the ripping speeds are normal until the buffer gets to 100%. After that the speeds drop to below 1x and a whole rip takes about 2 hrs. If I run a speed test in Nero I do not have this problem, it looks fine. I have tried many things including having just 1 dvd drive plugged in and a hard drive plugged in, on two seperate ide cables. Still same issue. I have updated to the newest aspi drivers and tried using forceaspi, still same problem. Anybody else have some ideas? I really need some help, thanks!

[2COOL]

You probably have something running in the background hogging your resources. Do a Ctrl+Alt+Delete to bring up your Task Manager and look and look in your Processes tab. See which process is giving your hell. ;)

[lakini18]

Nope, nothing running, cpu usage is at 0 - 1% without decrypter running, any other ideas?

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Buffering whilst reading means the program cant write to your hdd quick enough.

[lakini18]

How is this possible? I have a Maxtor 60GB Hard Drive, ATA 133. 1.52 GHZ computer. What do I need to change?

[Dimmer]

Check that your HDD is running in UDMA 6 mode. Ensure that HDD is the only device on its IDE channel.

[lakini18]

Its in mode 2, how do I change to mode 6? I have already tried un-installing the ide channels, but every time it comes up to mode 2, is this something that needs done in the BIOS?

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Are you using an 80 pin cable?

Yes, check the system bios finds it as a dma5 (or 6?) drive.

[lakini18]

Well, found a nifty program on my motherboard utilities disk, anyone see any problems?

http://www.allitemsale.com/pictures/mboard.jpg

Everything looks good to me

[Dimmer]

I suggest you unplug your Samsung CD-R drive. While unplugging, ensure that you indeed have 80-pin cable (not 40-pin!) connected to the HDD, as LIGHTNING UK! has already mentioned.

[easybeat]

I connected my DVD-rom as a slave to my hard-drive and set up the DVD-R as the master on the second IDE channel.
I've read elsewhere that this doesn't work, but for me it knocked about 20% of the rip time.

[thoralf]

Lakini -

you might want to defrag your hard drive ... I suspect that the problem is something else, though. Did you flash your drives with the latest firmware?

edit: note the missing dma value of your samsung cd drive. As dimmer already suggested, temporarily unplugging this device could solve your problems.

[lakini18]

I think I am almost there, you guys were right about the 40 pin cable, I replaced it with an 80 pin one. I also purchased a new NEC 8X burner, but I am still having very very slow ripping speeds, arround 2x, when I should be getting 16x. I have the hard drive now on one channel and the NEC on the other. Here is what is being detected by my system. I uninstalled all my IDE an re-installed, but still having problems. Thanks a bunch for all the help you guys are giving!

http://www.allitemsale.com/pictures/ide.jpg

[lakini18]

Oh by the way, I just got the drive today, so it is the standard firmware. Is this drive locked at 2x?

[Dimmer]

I heard that firmware in some DVD drives purposely limits the ripping speed to discourage piracy. Try plugging another one of your drives instead of the new one and see if there is any difference. If so, you might need a firmware patch.

By the way, if it says reading speed 16x on the box of a DVD drive, don't expect to rip the whole DVD at 16x since it's usually a maximum speed in CAV mode. My drive is rated 8x, and it starts ripping at 3.5x and speeds up to 8x only on the outer edge of the disc.

[mark800]

I just got the same NEC drive and I am also experiencing really slow ripping speeds, 2.2x :-/

[Dimmer]

Try the patch from forum.rpc1.org (http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?category=4&manufactor=23).