ATAng - copying atapi CD
Soren Schmidt
sos at spider.deepcore.dk
Tue Sep 2 10:57:16 PDT 2003
It seems Sean Kelly wrote:
> > I have a perl script that dd's each audio track from an audio cd. The
> > tracks are copied just fine until it gets about 75% into a 70 minute
> > cd. dd then gets slower and slower until it seems to grind to a halt.
> > eventually, I'll set TIMEOUT messages and won't be able to kill the
> > current dd process. Same results with DMA or PIO modes. Shorter
> > (40 minute) CDs make it through the process OK.
> >
> > Soren's crdao 1.1.7 for ATAng also grinds to a halt when copying a cd.
>
> I saw this on ATAold as well, using cdparanoia, dd, dagrab, etc. I just
> chalked it up to my drive being stupid, though it did it on several audio
> discs. So, maybe it isn't me after all? I don't recall seeing any timeout
> messages, though.
>
> And when I say ATAold, I mean ATAold from a week or so before the ATAng
> commit.
I just test a couble of audio CD's on tre different ATAPI drives, I didn't
see any slowdown at all.
I think this can be both because of the drive as well as the media..
-Søren
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