My Slow Lite-on DVD

[Amber]

HI ,
Thanks for looking at this

Ok my Lite-on DVD has slowed down on the Read, (IT HAD VERY GOOD TESTS SPEEDS)
I tested it with CDspeed and it will only do 15X I tryed Music and Data all the same speed

is my drive going bad or is it a bad setting
I tryed cleaning

I'm running XP pro , and I don't know were the DMA setting are in XP

MY Rig and set up

AMD 1800+
1gig DDR
MSI K7T266 Pro2
ATA 133 PCI card
2 80gig HDD's on the ATA card
Lite-on 16X DVD on IDE # 1 as master
Lite-on 32x on IDE # 2 as master

 

[GAZZA]

check in the device manager under the hard disk controllers/ide controllers and check the properties of primary and secondary controllers you should find a tab to enable DMA

 

[Amber]

GAZZA,
I did as you said and the DMA was set to auto
I ran CDspeed and it won't go over 16X and it tested very good before
LMK if you think of anything that would stop the speed @ 16X

 

[GAZZA]

OK one other thing springs to mind seeing as it is XP/Optical drive related and that is probably your ASPI drivers or lack of should I say , get the latest version of them Here at the Adaptec web site

 

[Amber]

GAZZA,
My ASPI was 4.6 I updated to the 4.71, but it's still won't do better then 16X
look at this:

CD Speed 99

31 July 2002 - 1:54:26

CD-ROM drive information
Vendor LITEON
Product DVD-ROM LTD163D
Firmware Version GHR2

CD information
Type Audio
Length 65:26.07

Test results

Transfer rate
Average 17.29x
Start 16.34x
End 17.41x
Reading type CLV

DAE quality
Score 10
Accurate stream Yes

Seek times
Random 94 ms
1/3 Seek 149 ms
Full 210 ms

CPU usage
1X 6%
2X 11%
4X 23%
8X 66%

Interface
Burst rate N/A

Spinup/Spindown Time
Spinup Time N/A
Spindown Time N/A

Disc Eject Time 1.45 sec
Disc Load Time 2.29 sec
Disc Recognition Time 0.01 sec

and THANK YOU

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Are you sure you are looking at the correct IDE channel? The only time I see auto-detect where it isn't grayed out is when the channel is empty. Both my lite-on cd-rw and 16x dvd have the auto-detect grayed out and show DMA if available and the DMA transfer mode being used. Also, have you flashed to the latest firmware revision already? I've had a cd-rw go funny on one of my clients and flashing it resolved the problem.

 

[Amber]

DAPUNISHER,
I'm sorry I should have that in
transfer mode: it is set to DMA if Available
and I think I'll look to flash my Lite-on DVD

 

[DAPUNISHER]

OK, but does it actually show the DMA transfer mode E.G. UltraDMA mode2 like mine does? If not then that is probably the cause of the slow down since it would be stuck in PIO4 mode most likely. BTW, I always make my DVD master on the cable and cdrw Slave as they seem to work better that way. Good luck and IHTH

 

[Amber]

DAPUNISHER,
yes the DVD is running in UltraDMA mode2
I have only 1 drive on each IDE with my Drives as masters
and my HDD's are on an ATA133 PCI Card

sorry again for my lack of info in my reply

 

[DAPUNISHER]

LOL no problem. It does sound like it's time to try flashing it

 

[Amber]

did you say flash or flush
I went with FLUSH and got a RMA from newegg with free overnight shipping

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: Amber
did you say flash or flush
I went with FLUSH and got a RMA from newegg with free overnight shipping

LMAO Good for you!