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SH-S203B reading speed

Recently I updated my Samsung SH-S203B's firmware to the current release, SB03.  Unfortunately, it seems that now whenever I use the drive with EAC to rip a CD, I get incredibly low read speeds compared to what I was getting earlier.  I'm lucky to get 3.0x read speed now, whereas before I was getting three times that speed easily.  Anyone know why this is the case?  I'm thinking about putting the SB02 firmware back on it in hopes that it'll restore my read speed with EAC.  This issue aside, is there any real reason why I should stick with the SB03 firmware as opposed to the older one?

Thanks for your time.

SH-S203B reading speed

Reply #1 –
Hi,

I have the same drive running, and also upgraded to SB03. I would recommend against downgrading, especially since they put out SB03 just a couple days after SB02, so there apparently was something funky with that version.

I can not concur on the speed loss, however. Maybe re-check your settings in EAC? I do have an issue with some CDs being read very fast on the first "test" of a track, but the actual read then goes considerably slower. But every other CD or so still goes up to 12-15x in secure mode.

flacflac

SH-S203B reading speed

Reply #2 –
Quote from: flacflac on
Hi,

I have the same drive running, and also upgraded to SB03. I would recommend against downgrading, especially since they put out SB03 just a couple days after SB02, so there apparently was something funky with that version.

I can not concur on the speed loss, however. Maybe re-check your settings in EAC? I do have an issue with some CDs being read very fast on the first "test" of a track, but the actual read then goes considerably slower. But every other CD or so still goes up to 12-15x in secure mode.

flacflac


Oh, this is brilliant.  My drive settings somehow changed from 'Drive is capable of retrieving C2 error information' to 'Drive caches audio data.'  Isn't the caching a bad thing to have to set EAC to?  I wonder how many CDs I've ripped now with those wrong settings.
 

SH-S203B reading speed

Reply #3 –
Quote from: CioCio on
Oh, this is brilliant.  My drive settings somehow changed from 'Drive is capable of retrieving C2 error information' to 'Drive caches audio data.'
This is  because the new firmware caused EAC to create a new registry entry (check the description of the drive in EAC and you'll see the firmware version).

Quote from: CioCio on
Isn't the caching a bad thing to have to set EAC to?
No, it's just a waste of time.  It's a bad thing to tell EAC that your drive doesn't cache when its test says that it does.

Quote from: CioCio on
I wonder how many CDs I've ripped now with those wrong settings.
Check your logs if you created them.

BTW and generally speaking, use of C2 pointers in EAC is not a good idea if you don't also use test and copy.

If you're already using test and copy and the checksums match then you don't have to worry about which settings were used.