dvd performance

i am running windows vista, beta 2 on a 1GB RAM, 3000+ AMD. I am experiencing incredibly slow DVD-RW performance, e.g., reading from the DVD.
I have a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR106D drive. It takes about 1 min to read the contents of a DVD-ROM that I burned of my important files.
I am seeing read performance of 3.7MB/sec, which seems really really slow.
I went to the pioneer site, but I have the latest firmware for the DVD -RW drive.
any ideas?

you got better luck than me, I got a BSOD the first time I Put king kong thorough mediaplayer. My only suggestion is try to only use Vista certified drivers only. The system restore service goes crazy if you don't.
"andrew" wrote:

i am running windows vista, beta 2 on a 1GB RAM, 3000+ AMD. I am experiencing incredibly slow DVD-RW performance, e.g., reading from the DVD.
I have a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR106D drive. It takes about 1 min to read the contents of a DVD-ROM that I burned of my important files.
I am seeing read performance of 3.7MB/sec, which seems really really slow.
I went to the pioneer site, but I have the latest firmware for the DVD -RW drive.
any ideas?

Have you checked the IDE channel settings? If its set to PIO4 mode it will be much slower than UDMA2
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i am running windows vista, beta 2 on a 1GB RAM, 3000+ AMD. I am experiencing incredibly slow DVD-RW performance, e.g., reading from the DVD.
I have a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR106D drive. It takes about 1 min to read the contents of a DVD-ROM that I burned of my important files.
I am seeing read performance of 3.7MB/sec, which seems really really slow.
I went to the pioneer site, but I have the latest firmware for the DVD -RW drive.
any ideas?