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On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 06:16:47 GMT, "Tige"
<r.sundararajan@student.unsw.edu.au.newsgroups> wrote:

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>My System Specs:
>
>Windows 2000 SP2
>A7V-133 Motherboard
>128 MB SD-RAM
>Athlon 1Ghz CPU
>Plextor 16/10/40A CD-ROM Drive.
>
>
>Problem:
>Plextor CD-ROM Drive which is supposed to read at 40X, only reads at 12X.
>Someone asked me to enable
>DMA, but when i look a the Properties in the Device Manager, a Resource
>Section where i can do that isn't
>enabled. Does anyone have a fix for this. Also, worth noting is that before
>i installed the Plextor Manager software
>the CD-ROM Drive was running at 8X. The Write CDR Function runs at 16X btw.

Same question posted yet again *& already answered above.

1.  You've got a VIA driver installed for IDE.  Remove it,
replace it with the standard MS driver that came with the OS.
Enable DMA, just like everyone has been telling you to do.

2.  Re: 40x = learn what the various speed specs really mean,
then do your measuring.  The spec for your drive does not say
that it reads every bit of all CDs at 40x.  And, there's an
abbreviation there that you're ignoring, something like maybe 40x
CAV?  Would it by chance have anything to do with where you're
reading on the disc? Like, might the read speed vary considerably
from the inside to the outside of the platter? Thimk.