Very slow ripping
Andy Choens
gunksta at gmail.com
Sun May 1 01:38:06 UTC 2005
> 1) I reran grip, and I'm still getting rip speeds between 2x
> and 3x; and
It's definitely a setting somewhere. I would like to know where too.
I was ripping a CD last night and was getting a whopping 1.5x speed.
I've got 1/2 a gig of ram too, a fast CD-ROM drive, and plenty of
spare CPU cycles to rip a CD quicker than that.
On SUSE I could rip CD's like a daemon...I mean demon......so it's
just a silly setting somewhere...but hdparm ain't it.
hdparm is turned on by default when I boot (see below), and I can
watch DVD's on the same drive (it's a CD/CD-Burner/DVD Drive combo)
all day long without so much as a skip, and I can copy data CD's at
very high speed, but I can't rip.
I find it interesting that Grip is doing the same thing to you. I was
planning on installing it right before I saw your post. I thought it
might be a Soundjuicer config thing, but now I think not.
I'd be curious to know if non-laptop users are experiencing similar
speed issues or not.
>
> 2) how do I get the hdparm setting to stick around after I
> reboot?
This is definitely worth doing. It will improve transfer rates on
data CD's, watching DVD's, etc. Edit /etc/hpparm.conf
My CD-ROM/DVD drive is /dev/hdc so I have a setting that looks like this.
/dev/hdc {
write_cache = on
dma = on
}
--andy
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