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entwisi · 28-01-2006, 09:27

Neil,
make sure DMA is turned on for all drives as this will slow down DVD ripping/playback. DMA allows the data to transfer from DVD to HD/memory without requiring any CPU cycles to do it. Hence massive improvement in performance

28-01-2006, 09:27	#10
entwisi God Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Up Bash Posts: 7,827 Blog Entries: 3 Liked: 44 times Rep Power: 4390	Re: Hard Drives. Neil, make sure DMA is turned on for all drives as this will slow down DVD ripping/playback. DMA allows the data to transfer from DVD to HD/memory without requiring any CPU cycles to do it. Hence massive improvement in performance __________________ Ian Technical God, No 1 Geek And Linux Guru Have you seen my Flickr pictures?