Extremely slow CD ripping speed

[Bob Nielsen]

On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 13:50 -0400, Arthemys wrote:
> There's been a noted issue in ubuntu and optical drive speeds. Something
> to do with DMA settings, I turned my DMA settings on and still no luck.
> If you search the forums here you'll find a number of threads that
> pertain to optical drives and hard drives with their DMA settings.
> 

That will probably make a difference.  My CD-RW drive (Sony advertised
as 52X) rips at 3.7x without DMA being set and that increased to 6.5x
when I set it to use UDMA2.  I also checked my DVD-ROM drive but it was
only ripped a CD at 3.0x with DMA enabled.

I haven't checked, but suspect that using DMA will improve the write
speed, as well.