[paranoia] New mobo == slower cdparanoia

[Bill Davidsen]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Ross Vandegrift wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> 
> 	Before a few weeks ago, I had an Athlon CPU/VIA chipset
> motherboard with Ultra66 IDE channels.  I had a Compaq CD-ROM hooked up
> to the VIA IDE channels, and a Promise controller for my hard drives.
> 
> 	I recently upgraded to an Athlon XP and a new VIA chipset
> motherboard.  Now, my hard drives are on the faster, newer VIA channels
> and my CD-ROM is on a Promise controller.
> 
> 	Other than that nothing has changed - same exact
> drives/cables/etc.
> 
> 	However, cdparanoia is a lot slower and less reliable than
> before.  The first combination would rip and encode an average length CD
> in maybe 10-20 minutes with max paranoia enabled (-z).  I only ever saw
> '-', '+', or '!' when the media had been scratched/abused.
> 
> 	The new configuration stinks - cdparanoia feels like its taking
> real-time to rip.  It's easily getting hung up on tracks.  Tons of '-',
> '+' for every song on every CD I've tried ripping, even new and pristine
> discs.
> 
> 	I'm using ide-scsi emulation on 2.4.23, and was before as well.
> Is there a chance it's a problem with the Promise card?  Any suggestions
> for improving this non-optimal situation?

Check that DMA is enabled for your CD.


-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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