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Richard Brown wrote: > > I've got a friend who I set up with Ubuntu 8.10. He is currently > trying to move all his music to the hard drive ready to take on > holiday with him. However, the first cd he put into the disk drive > took four hours to copy to the hard drive. > > Any ideas why it would take so long please? Sounds like something seriously wrong (or the machine is out of memory). You'd have to look at it, check the logs, check output of top. CD's should rip in a few minute on modern CD drives as they are usually 52x or similar speeds. Worth also using hdparm or similar to see what the write speed is, if it plays the CD fine as a straight audio player. Worth also trying a different CD, just in case it is one with some broken copy protection mechanism or similar. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html