Re: CD ripper/MP3 encoder

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Aaron T Porter wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Shawn Hooton wrote:
> 
> > This is easy!  I have a PII 400 with 1 2GB SCSI2 HD and a 4x SCSI
> > toshiba CDROM and I encode, rip, and play mp3s all the time.  In fact I
> > have even compiled code during this process!  Note:  Esd had to be
> > reniced to -10
> 
> 	Do you have a SCSI drive that will read audio tracks at above 1x?
> 	If so, which brand/model?

Erm... I've got a plextor that'll do that, a couple of toshibas that'll do
that (mostly shipped by sun), an HP that'll do that...

The mechanism for reading CDs in an ATAPI drive and a SCSI drive are
fundamentally the same thing.  In fact, most everything else is too --
ATAPI is sending SCSI commands over an IDE bus.

 -- Peter

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