Whew! Well, this is definitely weird.
I'm gonna post my detailed system info (two hard drives, two CD drives), and then my observations. Tackle at will (either my problems, or me for taking up your time
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Intel(r) 82801DB UltraATA Storage Controller-24CB
Primary 0: Ultra DMA Mode 5
Primary 1: Ultra DMA Mode 5
Secondary 0: Ultra DMA Mode 2
Secondary 1: PIO Mode (even after "DMA if available" was set and I rebooted)
HD0: 60 gb - Location 0 (0) (boot drive)
HD1: 250gb - Location 1 (1)
CD0: Liteon DVD-ROM - Location 0 (0)
CD1: ATAPI CD-RW 52x24 - Location 1 (1)
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- CD0 came with my system. I bought and installed both HD1 and CD1 separately.
- Playing a music CD with CD1 renders my system so slow that even the music is garbled on ANY player. This may be a new phenomena; I don't remember this happening months ago.
- I can actually rip music accurately (and ungarbled) with CD1, but since it slows down my system really really bad (worse than 'to a crawl'), I obviously don't use this drive for ripping presently.
- If I rip at max (20-22x) with CD0 using MC10, the system slows moderately (I think my "to a crawl" in this context was unfortunately exaggerating). It's annoying, but bearable. I can still play MP3s while ripping.
- If I rip with CD0 using WMP9, it doesn't seem to rip as fast (but WMP9 doesn't list speeds), and my system does not slow down.
- Also, if I throttle down CD0 on MC10 to 8x, my system does not slow down.
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It's been months since I first installed CD1, so I don't recall how I set things up physically (is it possible to tell from the description of my system specs above?). I guess, especially given your comments, Marko, that I should open up my computer (ack, and deal with all the dust and wires under there... eegads!) and maybe adjust my setup. Or I could just throttle down my ripping speed to 8x (why doesn't MC10 have anything in between 8 and 22x? grrr!) and simply avoid the problem, eh?
Anyway, thanks for any additional insight you might have! I think this has clearly strayed from MC10 issues, so if mods wanna move this to a non-MC topic, I'm cool with that.