[paranoia] New mobo == slower cdparanoia

[Bill Davidsen]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Ross Vandegrift wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:35:58PM -0500, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> > All CDs rip with lots of -/+, but now I'm even seeing ! and e.  I think
> > I may try making the drives slaves on the VIA channels and seeing if
> > things improve any.
> 
> Here's one for the archives, hope someone else can find it when they
> need it...
> 
> The promise interfaces are just awful for CD ripping.  I moved my CD-ROM
> onto a motherboard channel as a slave and got fast, solid ripping.  The
> chipset is a VIA KT400, the promise card in question is an Ultra33.  The
> CD-ROM doesn't even support UDMA33.
> 
> It sucks I can't have an extra channel just for ripping - it does hurt
> disk performance this way.  But proper rips are totally worth it.

Actually, I seem to remember that there is a problem with Promise
controllers and VIA chipsets. I can't remember the details, and it may be
something else, but a check for the archives of this list and the
linux-kernel list might be instructive.


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

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