Re: New mobo == slower cdparanoia
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.audio.cd-paranoia.general |
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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 <[email protected]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Paranoia homepage: http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to '[email protected]' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.