Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 19:57:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> To: Sean Kelly <smkelly@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Bryan Liesner <bleez@comcast.net> Subject: Re: ATAng - copying atapi CD Message-ID: <200309021757.h82Hv18Z031088@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20030902171056.GA52978@edgemaster.zombie.org>
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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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