[KLUG Members] More ripping problems

[Adam Williams]

>One thing to think about.... are you using IDE cdrom and hard drive? 
>If so, are they on the same IDE cable?  If they are you may want to
>move the cdrom to the secondary IDE chain on your computer (assuming
>that you have one - most newer machines do).  IDE is not real good at
>bidirectional conversations.  This causes a lot of buffer underruns
>when burning cd's so may be an issue when you are ripping too.

If you are getting alot better performance under Win32 than Linux with the 
same hardware you should probably check out "hdparm".  Also make sure you 
are using SCSI over ATAPI emulation.

ftp://kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/PerfTune2001.pdf
ftp://kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/DiskMan1.pdf