Re: Inconsistent hard disk activity

[email protected] (Monty)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.cd-paranoia.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>


On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:06:28AM -0600, Danny D wrote:
> Perhaps that's not the best title for this question, but I dunno how 
> else to phrase it...
> 
> I like to rip some CD's with the command:
> 
> cdparanoia -Y -X -W --force-cdrom-device /dev/scd0 "1-" - | oggenc -o 
> foo.ogg -Q -b 128
> 
> I have two CD drives:
>  /dev/scd0  IDE0.slave  HP DVDwriter 200i thingie (which is rad)
>  /dev/scd1  IDE1.master Sony DDU1621 DVD-ROM
> 
> If I use the first drive, I get fast ripping with almost no hard drive 
> activity.  However, if I use the second drive, ripping is slightly 
> slower and the hard drive is almost constantly going.  Why is this?

Perhaps your kernel is logging errors to the syslog?

Monty
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