Question: If I copy an audio CD, the data stream breaks off after a while. My 8x CD-ROM drive is evidently not fast enough, even though my burner writes at double speed only. What is going on here?
Answer: First, check which speed you have set for reading audio data . Try setting 0 for maximum speed.
Many CD-ROM drives reads CDDA data at single speed only. When copying an audio track, you should set your CD-burner back to single speed -- or use temporary files.
Some SCSI host adapters (e.g. Oktagon2008 v6.8) cannot transfer certain block sizes at full speed ((e. g. block sizes that are not to the power of 2 or are not a multiple of 256 bytes). Oktagon informed us that it would only transfer at about 230 kB/s. A CD-ROM drive that reads at double speed needs the audio data to arrive at about 345 kB/s.
The cure here is Oktopussy, a new device driver for the Oktagon from Oliver Kastl.
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