Hello. I have two dvd drives. I want to rip audio cds, but I have two problems:

1. The second drive is slow - it seems like it is ripping the cd in chunks. I've tested two cds under two apps and the performance is the same.
2. The first drive doesn't seem to recognize audio cds - it has no problem with dvds and data discs.

I'm thinking this is more of debian issue, but I don't know how to fix it. Any ideas? Thanks.

john

From the ubuntu wiki.


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Optical Drives

How to speed up CD/DVD-ROM

* Read #General Notes

e.g. Assumed that /dev/cdrom is the location of CD/DVD-ROM

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sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/cdrom
sudo cp /etc/hdparm.conf /etc/hdparm.conf_backup
gksudo gedit /etc/hdparm.conf

* Append the following lines at the end of file

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/dev/cdrom {
    dma = on
}

* Save the edited file

Just might help.

Thanks. It helped, but not in terms of speed. It did help it a bit, however: now when the cd door opens, it doesn't close immediately. Thanks for tyring.

john