Copying 4,3 GB from DVD to harddisc needs 35 minutes ??

[Jeff Korn]

I bought a new, often recommended DVD burner LG GSA-4163B which officially burns DVDs at 8/16x speed and reads at 16x speed.

Now, when I try to copy (under Win2000) a couple of files (<10) from a previously burned DVD (+RW format)
through WindowsExplorer onto my harddisc it needs approx 35 minutes !!!

Can it be ?

I cannot believe it. Is there a wrong driver (Officially the Win2000 standard driver should be sufficient) ?
Currently the driver cdrom.inf is resonsible for this device. Isn't there a "dvd.inf" or something similar better suited?
From where do I get this driver (There was no additonal CD supplied with the hardware)

No other ressource consuming programs are running. The harddisc offers enough free space (>20 GB).
So what wrong?

Do I have to jumper the DVD in a special way?
Do I have to setup something in the BIOS?
Do I have to toggle a special Windows setting?

Jeff

 

[Yves Leclerc]

A few things to check:

1) Is the drive using PIO or DMA access mode. DMA is faster

2) What other IDE device is connected to the same IDE cable as the 4163B
unit?

3) Is the drive set as Master / Slave / Cable Select ?

4) Did you install the IDE Ultra DMA drivers for your motherboard chipset
drivers?

5) What is the drive's firmwire version? (Not the driver version. Drive
firmware should be A10x -- A105 is the latest available)

 

[Lil' Dave]

What is +RW format?

I bought a new, often recommended DVD burner LG GSA-4163B which officially

burns DVDs at 8/16x speed and reads at 16x speed.

Now, when I try to copy (under Win2000) a couple of files (<10) from a

previously burned DVD (+RW format)

through WindowsExplorer onto my harddisc it needs approx 35 minutes !!!

Can it be ?

I cannot believe it. Is there a wrong driver (Officially the Win2000

standard driver should be sufficient) ?

Currently the driver cdrom.inf is resonsible for this device. Isn't there

a "dvd.inf" or something similar better suited?