Very slow ripping

Luke Yelavich themuso at themuso.com
Sun May 1 01:04:28 UTC 2005


On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 10:53:40AM EST, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> My CD-ROM drive rips CDs really, really slowly. Right now
> I'm in the middle of ripping, and grip is giving me rip
> speeds of 3.0x. /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info gives the info
> below, which tells me that I should be able to get 24x. The
> machine itself is quite new: it's a ThinkPad R51 with a
> 1.5-gig Pentium M and half a gig of RAM. It should be
> tearing through CDs. Yet it's not. Any idea how to figure
> out what the culprit is?

Is DMA turned on for your drive? Check with the hdparm command like so:

hdparm -d /dev/hdx where X is the pointer to the relevant drive.
-- 
Luke

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