Burning needs

[Petri Pennanen]

On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 05:20 -0500, volvoguy wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:21:06 -0500, Jeramy Rutley <jrutley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Try grip.  It works great.
> 
> I've been playing around with grip tonight, but I think I might be
> doing something wrong. When this machine was running windows, it would
> rip audio CDs at 18-20x and encode at 3-6x. With grip I'm only ripping
> and encoding at 1-2x.
> 
> grip's documentation suggests that ripping speed can be doubled by
> using scsi emulation, but I didn't see any change at all. Does anyone
> have speed improvement tips that aren't covered by grip's
> documentation and mailing list?
> 
> If this is getting too off-topic, feel free to contact me directly or
> move this over to the sounder list. Also a bit off-topic, how can you
> set the DMA status for a drive and make it "stick"? The "disks" tool
> under System Configuration doesn't seem to save the changes made
> there.

This is techical discussion for Ubuntu users. I think we are on topic.

To get the DMA status to stick you should edit /etc/hdparm.conf
	
	sudo nano /etc/hdparm.conf

make sure you have

        /dev/hdc {
                dma = on
        }

Then press Ctrl + O and Ctrl + X.

- Petri