[Fixed] Blu-Ray drive seems very slow

[Zorba]

Okay, I've been chasing this problem off and on for a few months. I have a HTPC running Win XP Pro SP3. It has a LG CH08LS10, Blu-Ray drive that is supposed to be 8x. For the first year and a half I had the computer, I could watch blu-rays just fine, but then one day they were just insanely jerky. I figured it must be drivers or programs, so I have tried every combination of drivers and programs I could.

Finally, tonight I installed AnyDVD and copied the files off the disk to my hard drive. Playing off the hard drive they work great, off the disc they are very jerky. I also noticed that while copying over to the HDD the transfer rates were very slow, so I opened the Performance tool under system tools and it shows that I am only getting a 1.7mb/s transfer rate.

I also noticed the other night burning a DVD seemed to take forever, but I didn't time it and just figured it had been awhile since I burned a full DVD.

So my question is: Is my drive shot or is there something I should try or investigate further?

The drive has a SATA interface
MB: GIGABYTE GA-MA785GMT-UD2H (785G Chipset)
CPU: AMD ATHLON II X2 240 2.8G RT
GPU: Onboard Radeon 4200
RAM: 4GB, 1066
Sound card: Onboard Realtek

Currently I have all of the latest chipset, GPU and sound card drivers and latest firmware for the drive. Have tried original drivers and many steps between.

 

[exdeath]

It's a spinning disk. Slow is the fundamental basis of spinning disk technology.

More helpful answer, is the max burn speed being limited by choice of budget bulk media?

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Could something have gotten screwed up in the BIOS, and now the optical drive is PIO, instead of DMA?

Look here: http://winhlp.com/node/10
and here: http://icrontic.com/discussion/5299/cd-rw-drive-stuck-in-pio-mode

 

[Zorba]

It's a spinning disk. Slow is the fundamental basis of spinning disk technology.

More helpful answer, is the max burn speed being limited by choice of budget bulk media?

The problem is I have an 8x Blu-ray drive that seems too slow to run a movie, and copies at about a 0.75x speed, when it used to be just fine.

 

[Zorba]

Could something have gotten screwed up in the BIOS, and now the optical drive is PIO, instead of DMA?

Look here: http://winhlp.com/node/10
and here: http://icrontic.com/discussion/5299/cd-rw-drive-stuck-in-pio-mode

First link worked great. Thank you very much, I could hug you right now!

The drive was stuck in PIO mode. From reading it sounds like if you put a really scratched up disc in the drive, windows can degrade the drive forever. This summer I ripped a couple of CDs that won't play in most drives from all the scratches, which I bet pissed off windows. It is really stupid Windows won't reset the mode on reboot or when a different disc is inserted.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Merry Christmas!