Question: My Oktagon-SCSI interface is reading audio data very slowly. How can I improve the rate?
Answer:
We don't have experience ourselves with this problem, but we can pull on the experience of our customers: Hannes Welser <welser@geocities.com> told us how he got the Oktagon to read faster:
If the reading of audio data is slow, he turns off his computer for a brief moment, turns it on again, and then sends an update command to the CD-ROM drive and the burner. He does this using the Target CD_R window and the Track selection window. Upon that, his Plextor drive reads CDDA at about 8speed. He tries this in test mode until it's ready, then he burns for real.
He had to reduce the reading speed to 8speed, since higher speeds led to hanging problems occasionally. He used a small value for the chunk size (32 - 36 KB).
This was tried with versions 6.8 and 6.12 (the versions string thought it was 6.10) of the oktagon.device running on an A4000/040 with 25MHz and a Plextor 12/20 TSI CD-ROM drive and Grundig IPW100 CD burner.
Oliver Kastl's <olli@elaborate-bytes.com> new Oktapussy driver
should solve the problem with the audio data.
Please read Glenn Mrosek's instructions in `doc/Compatibility'.
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