Check to see if your drive is in DMA mode, as noted on this page: http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc-support.htm
I had the self same problem on my laptop after ripping a particularly scratched (= not mine) CD. What's worse is not only does the CD rip speed drop, but it also hammers the CPU and RAM, so the encoding is nobbled too. -- bigfool1956 David Ayers Music is what counts, hifi just helps us enjoy it more ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bigfool1956's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13782 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42354 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
