Very slow ripping

[John Affleck]

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 05:33:43AM +0300, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
> I did more search and found this link[1] and this one[2] which
> almost describe the same problem.  Sadly, there *is* a problem in
> the Kernel (and apparently, SuSE and others are patching the Kernel
> for this one).
> 
> A quick (but ugly) fix is to switch to ide-scsi which means
> accessing your CD-ROM with SCSI emulation (just like the old days).

This actually makes a big difference, at least for me.  I switched
over to ide-scsi and found that both the ripping speed and robustness
was vastly improved over the pure ide solution.

	John A.