Re: system slowdown when copying audio CDs

[Romain Lerallut <lerallut@eleves.enpc.fr>]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Gavin Hamill wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Romain Lerallut wrote:
>
> > I have a problem when writing audio tracks from a CD to my HD.
> > My PC slows down a *lot*  when copying tracks from an audio
> > CD, but not when I'm reading data (neither when I'm burning a CD).
>
> Ripping audio data requires your machine to throttle the IDE controller
> and the CD-ROM drive hard... and depending on your configuration, it /can/
> be a very intensive process..
>
> I'm sure we've all seen Windows freeze when you put a CD in because it's
> asking the CD drive about the newly inserted disc, and the drive is
> locking the IDE interface while it has a think...
>
> I have no SCSI CD-ROM, but I wouldn't be surprised if things were MUCH
> better ....
>
> That's what I think anyway - I'm no hardware guru so I'm probably
> completely wrong :)
>
> Regards,
> Gavin
>

Okay, well if it's not unusual, then I'm feeling better. :-)

Funny that the behavior of the CD drive is so different in the audio mode
than in the data mode.

Thanks,
Romain