rob pfile wrote: > > I've posted on a similar topic before. the short story is that i could > not make the dvd/cdrom drive in the tibook work for audio extraction > unless i used the ide-scsi package. > > while that worked in the sense that cdparanoia could see the drive, > system performance during cd ripping is terrible. the load average goes > to about 5 and the mouse is completely unusable. the strange thing is > that the X server and a few X clients are hogging the cpu during > ripping, which just makes no sense.
Educated guess: the load is caused by IDE interrupts, some of which occur in the X server's and clients' time slices so they get accounted for the CPU cycles they use. Try hdparm -u1 /dev/hde (or whatever the IDE device node of your DVD ROM is). -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
