gnomebaker audio CD copy verrrrry slow

[Vram]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 01:43 +0200, Marek Pawinski wrote:
> Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 00:53 +0200, Marek Pawinski wrote:
> > 
> >>>How is one supposed to proceed to enable DMA on a bloody CD drive ?
> >>
> >>sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks Marek, that worked.
> > 
> > 
> > I am disappointed, though. DMA makes no difference when ripping speeds.
> > I get exactly the same speeds when ripping with DMA on or off. And it's
> > pretty slow too, at only x2. When I ripped all my CD's with Warty a few
> > month back, I am sure I got about x4....
> > No DMA magic for me then, it seems :o(
> > 
> > Well, luckily, I don't really depend on it for ripping CD's, they are
> > already all done.
> > 
> > Once hdparm sets DMA, does it take effect instantly ? I tried restarting
> > sound-juicer, even logging-out/in, but that didn't do it.
> > Do I need to reboot the machine ??
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Vince, a bit disappointed...
> > 
> > 
> 
> Once you reboot the machine hdparm wil be reset to off on your CDROM 
> drive, there is a way to set it permanent like, but i forget now, you 
> will have to hunt google :-)
> 



I believe it is

/etc/init.d/hdparm.


HTH

Vram