From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Jones Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 18:53:58 +0000 Subject: Re: CD ripper/MP3 encoder Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Aaron T Porter wrote: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Shawn Hooton wrote: > > > This is easy! I have a PII 400 with 1 2GB SCSI2 HD and a 4x SCSI > > toshiba CDROM and I encode, rip, and play mp3s all the time. In fact I > > have even compiled code during this process! Note: Esd had to be > > reniced to -10 > > Do you have a SCSI drive that will read audio tracks at above 1x? > If so, which brand/model? Erm... I've got a plextor that'll do that, a couple of toshibas that'll do that (mostly shipped by sun), an HP that'll do that... The mechanism for reading CDs in an ATAPI drive and a SCSI drive are fundamentally the same thing. In fact, most everything else is too -- ATAPI is sending SCSI commands over an IDE bus. -- Peter THE MAGIC WORDS ARE SQUEAMISH OSSIFRAGE