[geeks] Suck arse CD audio ripping

[Kurt Huhn]

Kenneth Dunn wrote:
> 
> Tonight (morning) while ripping some audio tracks from a CD in
> my "52 speed" ATAPI CD-ROM I noticed it was affecting serial transfers
> something chronic. Are ATAPI CD drives really sucky or is it just the
> lack of prempting in the Linux kernel. The computer has a Celeron
> (Coppermine) running @ 770Mhz.

Sucky-ass buses I would presume.  Linux has decent preempting, as far as
I've experienced, but then again, I haven't been ripping at 52x...
-- 
Kurt
kurt at k-huhn.com