[Lil Half Swell]

revhead (09-01-2002 15:32):
Hi there , I have the exact problem , but I am using a Ricoh 7200 cdr-w to read and write , I just bought it to do some back up copies of FIFA 2001 , GP 500 and F1 2000 , among others , as my kids are hard on cd's , and I get the same symptom as described above , the cdr-w spins but no read data shows , stays on 1 % for up to 20 mins and then I quit. I have copied some earlier cd's with no problem but it seems the later ones are protected or something. I tried using Nero 5.05 that came with the drive , same result , and I tried with an old 32x cd rom on second IDE bus with same result too. I also had the two CD roms on the same bus and got an error message saying that data throuput is not suported with both on same bus , so I swapped them around . Any help would be most appreciated but its good to see others have the same problem as me, thanks.

It's completely normal for it to go real slow around the first 2 or 3% while reading, as this is where the protection is located on Safedisc 1 & 2 protected titles. Just give it time and it will speed up dramatically after the first couple of %.