Hello all: First let me apologize if I am doing this wrong. I have a liteon 167T that will not exceed read speed of 1.48x. I recently purchased another drive and got the exact same read speed testing with nero speed test. These are the things I have done. I am running in dma ultra 6 mode(which changes back every time I boot up but I catch it and change it back), I have the latest firmware which is 9S19 or something like that and I have an 80 conductor IDE cable with no change. I have it on my secondary as slave and my burner as master. I can guess it is not the drive since I have had a total of three with the same read speed. I also tested my burner read speed and it had an average of 12X which is o.k. If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it. P.S I have a dell 2.4 with 512 meg ram. Thanks