DesktopCD Installer Slow

[Jack Wasey]

If the drive is configured as master and wired as slave you can get this kind of 
problem. I've found it will often get through 2/3 of a disk before bombing out. 
Could this be your problem?

Yorvik wrote:
> Andy Collins wrote:
>> Is anyone else finding the desktop cd installer incredibly slow? I 
>> have amd64 3000+ with 1.5gb of RAM, and the installer is dead slow and 
>> stop. It has frozen twice on me, and it's literally click, go away and 
>> do something, then come back.
>>
> It's probably the CD drive.  We have 5 'identical' machines in a 
> teaching room at work, one of which was noticeably slower then the rest 
> when the CD was being used.  Another simply refused to read some CDs, 
> but when it could read them it was as fast as the rest. I've moved the 
> drives around the machines and the problem follows the CD drives.
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> Cheers
> 
> SteVe
>