Reportedly checking the "drive caches audio data" box tells EAC to overwrite the cache every read. If it didn't, error correction would never work because it would be reading from the cache every time, getting the same data every re-read.
This is a controversial option and some interpret it the opposite, meaning *do* read from the cache. So it would be best to experiment. In your case, with a drive that doesn't have a cache (are you sure? Must be really old!) perhaps it's forcing a re-read of every sector, which is taking more time? Not sure. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22466 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
