Posted by Jeff on 12/23/10 11:27

under@lycos.co.uk (Jeff Korn) wrote in news:4331747b$0$27559$9b4e6d93
@newsread4.arcor-online.net:

> 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
>
>

Check that the drive is using DMA and is not on the same cable as a
device with a slower transfer rate.
Specs for that drive say the max read speed for +RW is 8x. The read
speed varies depending on what part of the disc it is reading, so you
will not get the max speed all of the time.
Another possibility is there are errors on the disc and it is re-reading
sections until it gets a good read.

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