Can you tweak a CD-Rom drive to perform better? Asus DVD-

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I have an Asus DVD-E616A with a 2 MB data buffer.

Can you adjust the size of blocks of data being cached? (I am a novice, I
am just talking about bits and pieces of things I have heard- LOL !!!)

If you know any neat tricks please let me know.

Thanks
 
Yep, I figured that out after I had to hunt for my post down in the Pile !!!
LOL !!!

Any idea on how to tweak a CD-Rom?

I have a Diagnostic Program that allows you to test a CD-Rom Drive by
reading a disk in either 32kb or 64kb cached mode.

In the 64kb mode the drive was faster but used a little more CPU resources,
so I figured that there might be a way to play with that a little.
 
Dave said:
I have an Asus DVD-E616A with a 2 MB data buffer.

Can you adjust the size of blocks of data being cached? (I am a novice, I
am just talking about bits and pieces of things I have heard- LOL !!!)

If you know any neat tricks please let me know.

Thanks
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Not unless there is a utility/driver for the drive that will accomplish
this, which I very much doubt. There is no way native to XP for this.

Steve N.
 
You might see "Some" overall speed improvement with a SATA based
DVD-R(W) drive. Those are capable of UDMA Mode 4 speeds where
almost all traditional IDE units have a maximum of UDMA Mode 2.
But I wouldn't replace an existing IDE/ATAPI for SATA, unless I was
going to retire my existing optical drive.
 
Dave said:
Yep, I figured that out after I had to hunt for my post down in the Pile !!!
LOL !!!

Any idea on how to tweak a CD-Rom?

I have a Diagnostic Program that allows you to test a CD-Rom Drive by
reading a disk in either 32kb or 64kb cached mode.

In the 64kb mode the drive was faster but used a little more CPU resources,
so I figured that there might be a way to play with that a little.







:
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Not that I'm aware of.
 
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