Does your DVD interface affect how fast it is?

[james bennett]

I was wondering if anyone could fill me in on the fastest dvd/cd players out there. I thought I bought a decent one until I ran a passmark performance test on it. After comparing my rating against one of the baselines, I saw that the baseline score blew my player away. (my score was .1mb/sec and the baseline was 3.26mb/sec). Thats 32 times as fast. unfortunately it doesn't give alot of detail on the brand used in the test. Could it be the interface? Mine is a IDE interfaced LG super multi-DVD rewriter model#GSA-H55L

[Knight]

The interface should not matter. My LG burner runs about 3.4(mb/s). SATA was used because it mainly saved space.

Something else is wrong.

[RADCOM]

In device manager check the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller properties> primary and secondary IDE channel>advanced settings. They can sometimes revert to PIO mode UDMA mode 5 is preferable.

[james bennett]

In device manager check the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller properties> primary and secondary IDE channel>advanced settings. They can sometimes revert to PIO mode UDMA mode 5 is preferable.

I checked the primary and secondary IDE controllers and the primary is running UDMA mode 5 but, the secondary is running Ultra DMA 2. The CD/DVD is plugged into the primary channel. As far as the secondary goes, I looked in the bios at start-up and thats the highest setting available. (ultra DMA 2). I'm starting to wonder how reliable the test results are.