"Shawn T. Rutledge" wrote: > > What's the best drive for this? > > I use cdparanoia and I think the fastest I've ever seen was 1.4x, once, > momentarily on a clean disc. Typically it's less than 1x. I have been using a Yamaha Lightspeed 16-10-40 and w/ cdparanoia I get about 3x or 4x using a P!!! 800EB w/ 512MB and Mandrake 7.2. YMMV, -- Kevin O'Connor She can kill all your files; She can freeze with a frown. And a wave of her hand brings the whole system down. And she works on her code until ten after three. She lives like a bat but she's always a hacker to me. -- Apologies to Billy Joel