gnomebaker audio CD copy verrrrry slow

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> And yes, ripping CD-ROM at 4x *IS* slow!  The normal speed would be
> between 10x and 24x depending on the condition of the media, the quality
> of your device, and the "paranoia" mode.  However, there's a bug in the
> stuck Ubuntu kernel that cause this.  If you check "/var/log/system" or
> run the command "dmesg | tail" just after starting ripping you'll see a
> message that reads "dropping to sing DMA mode" which effectively means
> (almost) turning DMA off.  I hope that Breezy (the soon to be released
> Ubuntu version) fixes this.
> 
> You might want to turn the automatic mount feature in GNOME off just
> before ripping and then re-enable it after done as some report a
> significant speed boost when doing that.  Also, you might try using the
> SCSI-IDE emulation layer (it's a bit hard) which *might* helps a lot (I,
> personally, find this to fix the problem on my system).
> 
> Ziyad.

thanks Ziyad, I never imagined that computers could rip Cd's so fast !
If I understand you well, it seems that DMA is not quite working out of
the box then, in Ubuntu. Well, as I said, it more of an academic
question, as I don't have any CD to rip anymore, and the only DVD I
have, I rarely watch it.
I will give ripping another try, in 3 months, when Breezy is released,
purely out of curiosity.

--
Vince