Actually I believe most modern drives do not have an audio cache - they do have a data cache, not an audio one. I found a tool at http://www.feurio.com/English/Download/download_install.shtml which includes a test for audio cache, and both my drives do not have one.
Thinking about it, the reason a read takes longer with the audio cache box checked, is because the way EAC overcomes the cache is to 'overread', which I guess means read more than it has to so as to flush data through the buffer - taking longer is expected behaviour. So in short, if you drive definitely does not have audio caching then check this box so as to speed up ripping. Another test in the furio tool (Ctrl Alt P to go to the test page) is for the offset. And surprisingly it reported an offset of zero for my drive whereas EAC suggest 48 - I suspect that explains some odd behaviour I have been seeing, for which I will open another thread. -- mortod ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mortod's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4651 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22466 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
