I have a "little" problem with this DVD Drive, a few in fact...
 
1: has anyone else noticed that this DVDRom only reads movies at 2x in burst mode? (DVD ripping yeah yeah) Is there a way around it?
 
2: whenever a DVD or CD is read in burst mode, or for some protected games (ex: installing Operation Flashpoint - SafeDisc 2 protection), the percentage of SCSI bus use is near 100% making the rest of the system crawl, especially HD operations, cache accesses are nearly suspended and only apps present in the RAM are operating at normal speed. Swapping the DVDRom with an Old Plextor PX32 works like a charm, no slowdown noticed, I can do whatever I want during the installation/ripping.
 
so, my Q is simple, did anyone else notice that, and do you think it has anything to do with the DVD firmware? (no updates yet)
I have tried different settings on the DVDRom, even changing the read block size from 2048 bytes to 512, but no go
System specs are below.
 
any input on this will be appreciated