ASUS DVD-ROM DAE not working as fast as it should be?

[Goi]

Hi guys...
I have an ASUS DVD-E116 ATA100 16X/48X DVD-ROM drive, and I'm only getting CD DAE speeds of at most 10X. Is this normal? It seems that people are getting a lot more performance from their drives than me...
I have it connected to my secondary ATA33 IDE channel, I don't think the ATA33 actually matters right? I mean...how fast can the drive be? I don't think it'll come close to, much less exceed 33MB/s...

 

[Willoughbyva]

Is the dma check box checked in device manager? Some older systems have problems using dma, but it might be worth a try.

Will

 

[Goi]

Well, I think it is. I'm on Win2K, and in my device manager, both my devices(0 and 1) in my secondary IDE channel are set at Ultra DMA if possible, but device 0 is PIO mode 4 while device 1 is Ultra DMA. I have an ATAPI zip100 drive connected to the same IDE channel as the DVD-ROM, and IIRC the DVD-ROM should be master and the ZIP slave, which means the ZIP's running at PIO 4 while the DVD-ROM's running at UDMA. I might be mistaken though...it might be the other way round, I'll check on that.

Even if it is though, how can I change the PIO4 to UDMA? The option isn't available in Device Manager(its already "DMA if available"). In BIOS maybe?

 

[NEVERwinter]

well.... DAE speed also depends on the software you use.
Audiograbber, EAC, CD-DAE etc. has different methods of extracting so the speed will be different

 

[Goi]

I'm using EAC 0.9 beta3

 

[Goi]

I found out what the problem was...its my onboard ATA33 controller that's holding it back. I just purchased a no-name ATA33 IDE controller with a Silicon Image 0680 chip, and hooked up my DVD-ROM drive to its secondary IDE channel, and boy what a difference! What was topping out at 10X before is topping out at almost 40X now! Even track 1 of my CDs are topping out at almost 20X, which is very impressive!