I have a Bus-Link 16 Speed DVD-ROM drive, but when using SmartRipper, the highest ripping speed it indicated was 5.5x. Is this correct, or should it be around 16x? Someone please shed some light. Thanx. crazydv8er@enter.net
I have also 16X dvd-drive.
When i use SmartRipper the ripping speed is
between 5-8X.
I have find out that when i was using FAT32 file-system the speed was higher but now when i´m using NTFS (Windows XP)the speed is a little slower.
Also check that you DMA is enabled (turned on) in control panel/system/hardware/devices/primary IDE channel and secondary IDE channel.
5-8x is about the max what you can get for many reasons, the 16x is normally not the "real read speed", but "peak speed". Also, your CPU has to go through the stuff you're ripping in order to decrypt the CSS, which effects the ripping speed further.
But anyway, 6 years ago it took 14-20 hours to rip one audio CD to MP3 format, so... :-)
Hi
Same problem here. I have an 8X DVDROM and I am running a WindowsXP Pro on NTFS. The maximum speed i have seen in 1.4X. This is too low and i hope someone can help me out with the reason.
funny how you cant enable Ultra DMA on your laptop until its formatted. Thats what i had to go through to enable it.
thanks for the advice.
thanks to the HP recovery Image CDs.
