Super Drive Speed

While burning or reading a data DVD the read speed is limited to 1.2x. Reading a 4.7G data from a DVD is painfully slow. Is there some setting or driver needed for improved data throughput while using windows file explorer? Antivirus is also turned off with no help in efficiency.

I wish there was an answer, I had the same problem using parallels. I guess the hardware is just optimized for macs? My best bet is to see if you can't do the burning on your mac side, my super drive works just fine in there. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

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