Insanely slow CD ripping with new drive

Legoguy

Alright, I just got a new drive, a LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S, which does DVD+-R[W] and CD-R[W], a few weeks ago. It burns CDs super hyper fast at full speed 48X, but reads Audio CDs at about 1X.
Here's hdparm -i /dev/hdc:

agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1783 Location: Scotland

How is it with reading data cd's (not dvd's), and what software are you using to play the audio cd? Is it set up to play as an audio cd or rip it digitally?
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Legoguy · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:35 pm Post subject:

I'm using abcde for ripping, but I've tried sound-juicer and kioslaves as well... which all, afaik, use cdparanoia...

Copying data from it works perfectly at full speed. Audio CDs are the only thing I have a problem with.

i92guboj · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:57 pm Post subject:

agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1783 Location: Scotland

I've got a lot of audio cd's that take _ages_ to rip using cdparanoia or eac in windows, it's the price you have to pay for the most accurate rip you can get from the disc you have.

Does the slow ripping happen on all audio cd's you have? Check the discs to see if they're obviously scratched. I use Brasso (in the UK) to clean scratched discs. Works a treat.
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Legoguy · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:23 am Post subject:

cdparanoia is irrelivant. As I said, the old cd drive I have rips with the same settings at full speed.

All audio CDs, even brand spank'in new ones that I just got.

i92guboj · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:57 am Post subject:

dan2003 · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:35 am Post subject:

I would bet on it being a copy protection issue, whee the older drive was better able to deal with corrupted data. To test this for sure try ripping a home burnt disc, or one that has definitely not got any copy protection. Pick a disc that is very old.
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Legoguy · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:02 pm Post subject:

i92guboj · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 10:26 pm Post subject:

As I told you above the error correction is highly influenced by the hardware itself. I dont think there is anything you can do, but you can, of course, lower or even deactivate the paranoia level when ripping cd that you are sure you can rely on.

Unfortunatelly some drives (specially the cheaper ones) do not have a so high quality hardware to deal with these circumstances, that is also why some of them almost lock the machine and use that heavy amount of cpu under windows when the OS cannot read the drive for some reason (for example with copy protections). If you ever cloned out a copy protected disk (for example a game with defective sectors or any other securom-like protection scheme) using clonecd you might have discovered that some people can copy that cds in some minutes, while some readers might take hours or even a couple of days to fully read it even if you set accuratelly the sector skipping parameters).

I could be wrong though, but if the issue is that I think there is no easy solution (other that to change the drive, of course). Remember that even if the cd is supposedly 101% protection free, there are still little differences that break standard formats and some people introduce in their disks to make it more difficult to rip it even if it is supposedly free material. Anyway, if it is not indeed copy protected you should get the same result w/o paranoia, so you can rip it sans-paranoia to see if it is indeed error free and not protected. Of course, it could also be a defective drive, but it is not the most probable possibility.

jsheedy · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 4:33 am Post subject:

I have this exact same issue, with this exact same drive. Movies will rip quickly, but cds will take forever. Here is my info

hdparm -i /dev/hdd

/dev/hdd:

Model=LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S, FwRev=KS0B, SerialNo=
Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic }
RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=0
(maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0
IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:227,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2
AdvancedPM=no
Drive conforms to: device does not report version:

* signifies the current active mode
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i_hate_your_os · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:20 am Post subject:

Hey, I have similar hardware (actually it's a cross-flashed Memorex-branded drive that /thinks/ its a LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S, but shh! don't tell the drive or it will stop burning DVD-R DL's!), and I had the exact same problem until I came across this post, which suggested that I install "this ebuild with ide-cd (no ide-scsi emulation please)" as a portage overlay. It made me happy and will probably make you happy too, I suggest you give it a whorl.
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jsheedy · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 7:31 pm Post subject:

You were correct, worked like a charm.
Thanks!
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