I have a 32x cdrom drive, but it seems I can only rip audio at about 4x or
so with cdparanoia and about 10x with cdda2wav. The CPU is about 30% while
ripping. How would I increase the speed? I read something about adjusting
the /proc/sys/kernel/sg-big-buff, but isn't that only for SCSI drives, or
will it also work for SCSI emulation?
Here's some of my current settings on the drive obtained from hdparm:
/dev/hdb:
Model=12X8X32, FwRev=9.EB, SerialNo=
Config={ Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic }
RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=0
(maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 *mdma2
AdvancedPM=no
/dev/hdb:
I/O support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
Jay