Re: New mobo == slower cdparanoia
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.audio.cd-paranoia.general |
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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 <[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.