On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:03:07AM -0400, Ben Steeves wrote: > Interesting... maybe the poster who suggested turning off cdparanoia's > paranoia feature was on the right track. Check the cdparanoia manpage > for the correct switches to tweak its settings. As a diagnostic, you > might try running cdparanoia from the command line with all the same > settings as it's being passed from grip, just to see what the output is > like. Hm, funny thing is: I'm having the same problem: grip is very slow. Annoyingly, RHL7.3's grip just flew on the very same hardware (Plextor 12/10/32S SCSI burner) - *also* with cdparanoia, same settings. Frankly, I'm stumped. Cheerio, Thomas -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Ribbrock http://www.ribbrock.org "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true!"