Very slow ripping

Luke Yelavich themuso at themuso.com
Sun May 1 01:31:38 UTC 2005


On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 11:18:48AM EST, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 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

it is very likely not the case, but is DMA turned on for your Hard drive 
as well? Also, is the system running anything else that is CPU or IO 
intensive at the time?

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

You need to add something like the following to your /etc/hdparm.conf 
file

/dev/hdx {
	dma = on
}

Hope this helps.
-- 
Luke

Get my public GPG key here: http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20050501/32a25dfa/attachment.sig>


More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list