Very slow ripping

Stephen R Laniel steve at laniels.org
Sun May 1 01:18:48 UTC 2005


On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 11:04:28AM +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> 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.

Ah ha! I did not know about that. Voila:

/dev/hdc:
 using_dma    =  0 (off)

Thanks a lot for that advice. So I did hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
and now I have

/dev/hdc:
 using_dma    =  1 (on)

Solid. But then

1) I reran grip, and I'm still getting rip speeds between 2x
and 3x; and

2) how do I get the hdparm setting to stick around after I
reboot?

-- 
Stephen R. Laniel
steve at laniels.org
+(617) 308-5571
http://laniels.org/
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