Folks,

I'm running the following:

- Asus A7V w/ AMD Athlon/Thunderbird 850Mhz
- 256meg. PC133 SDRAM
- Windows ME
- Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4.02e

I have the following drive(s) setup(s) on the machine -- keep in mind that I have two (2) onboard IDE controllers:

- ATA100 IDE Primary Master = WD 20gig. ATA100 HD

- IDE Primary Master = Acer 50X CD-ROM
- IDE Primary Slave = Acer 12x8x32 CD-R/W
- IDE Secondary Master = Iomega ZIP 100

Can anyone tell me why I might not be getting great transfer rates on the Acer CD-ROM master according to Easy CD Creator drives tests? Are those accurate? The read speeds (with DMA enabled) are 4x-6x. That's pathetic. I get 10x-12x read speeds on the Acer CD-R/W slave.

Any ideas are welcome and appreciated.