[Bug 13823] Re: cdparanoia is slow

[randallw]

For me this did indeed turn out to be the DMA problem. You can check/set your CDROM's status using hdparm.  If hdparm works for your cdrom, then you can enable DMA permanently by editing the /etc/hdparm.conf file.

The was a note in the breezy documentation about this, but I haven't
been able to find anything in the dapper docs.

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cdparanoia is slow
https://launchpad.net/bugs/13823