Re: cd ripping in fc3

[Endy <endy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

nicholas manojlovic wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> have tried googling a bit for some answers but have been unsuccesful or
> over-run with Windows related information.
>
> anyone got any ideas how to speed up ripping in FC3? Sound-Juicer is
> telling me its ripping between 2.5-3.8X, and this seems painfully slow. 
>
> Ive removed the ide=nodma line from my grub, and /sbin/hdparm /dev/hdc
> reveals that dma is 1 (on).
>
> 	HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument
> 	IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
> 	unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
> 	using_dma    =  1 (on)
> 	keepsettings =  0 (off)
> 	readonly     =  0 (off)
> 	readahead    = 256 (on)
> 	HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument
>
> Its a Samsung DVD (read) and RW drive if that is applicable. 
>
> Cheers
> Niko
>
>
>
>  
I'm fairly convinced that sound-juicer lies when reporting the 
speeds...it always seems to be going a lot faster than what it says.  I 
believe kde/konqueror in the file browsing mode can rip cds for you too, 
downloads the tags and everything.
-Endy