05-13-2006, 08:33 PM
I get in the 20 minute neighborhood with MTR 2.6.6 and a MDD duallie 1.25 dual boot machine and a LiteOn Combo drive in a FW case. If I use the built in Pioneer -106, it goes up to about 50 minutes. The pioneer has something called RipLock in the firmware that slows rip speed drastically, even though it has a decent read speed. I have a -109 in a FW case, and it is only marginally faster, despite the fact that it has a far faster read speed. It is the RipLock block.
However, if I have a troublesome disk that the LiteOn doesn't like, the Pioneer can do it most of the time, but much slower. The slower Pioneer speed gets past marginal spots on the disk that cause the fast LiteOn to hang up or report deliberate bad sectors.
Also, the reported time to complete a rip with MTR is usually off by a fair bit as the rip begins. As it has some of it completed, it comes up with a more accurate time. It can shoot up to well over an hour or two estimated if it slows down at a bad or marginal spot that it has difficulty reading. When it gets past that spot, and gets going, the time to completion gets corrected and comes way back down.
However, if I have a troublesome disk that the LiteOn doesn't like, the Pioneer can do it most of the time, but much slower. The slower Pioneer speed gets past marginal spots on the disk that cause the fast LiteOn to hang up or report deliberate bad sectors.
Also, the reported time to complete a rip with MTR is usually off by a fair bit as the rip begins. As it has some of it completed, it comes up with a more accurate time. It can shoot up to well over an hour or two estimated if it slows down at a bad or marginal spot that it has difficulty reading. When it gets past that spot, and gets going, the time to completion gets corrected and comes way back down.