Re: ide-cd or icd-scsi with kernel 2.6.3?
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.audio.cd-paranoia.general |
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| Organization | TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Peter Jones wrote: > On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 02:18, TB wrote: > >>Please reply directly to me; I'm not on the list. >> >>ide-scsi is deprecated in 2.6 series kernel. However, the same CD track with my >>Lite-on 52x CD rips in :14 seconds with ide-scsi and :19 seconds with ide-cd. >> >>Should I continue using the deprecated ide-scsi interface as advised by the FAQ? > > > For now, yes. > > >>Will an updated cdparnoia eventually cease favoring ide-scsi? > > > I'm not in a position of authority, so I can't say for sure, but I'm > actively working on a patch to switch to the new APIs presented by > ide-cd. Shouldn't take a lot of work or time, but then again I don't > have a lot to spare :/ > For writing audio, the ide-cd is better, since it can use DMA with the 2.6 kernel and has far less overhead. But I have not had reproducible results with readcd, so ide-scsi is still desirable there. Actually 2.4 might be the path of least astonishment. -- bill davidsen <[email protected]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small 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.