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EAC troublesome here too

I'm setting up a new computer for someone and ran into a little problem(s) with EAC. Perhaps the behaviors are well known, but the search facility either gives me no hits or a full days work of reading  ... at least the first part of which is irrelevant.

The optical drive is a Lite-On model DVDRW model SHW-160P6S (maximum rated read speed 48X)

Secure Mode extracting never gets above 2.5X. Unfortunately there does not seem to be any system or application complaints, messages, or other indications of what EAC is spending so much time at. I tried both "installed external ASPI interface" and "native Win32 interface."

Burst Mode (test and copy) starts out about 0.2X and sometimes reaches 5.5X. Its difficulty is (perhaps only that), for each and every operation on each and every track, it begins by spending 10 or 12 seconds with "searching start sector." Then it starts reading very slowly and only reaches a modest speed before completing that track.

If I check "Spin up drive before extraction" in EAC's drive setup, the above behavior is preceded by about 10 seconds or so of spinning up the drive before starting the "searching start sector" business. Then, once finished with that track (for both the test and the copy functions, independently), it spins down the drive so it can start the entire sequence all over again for the next track.

The Lite-On CDRW drive on my own machine (SOHR-5329V) does the same start/stop the spin thing if I check "Spin up drive before extraction" so I leave that option unchecked. This seems to cause no problems. The same CDs that are so slow on the new machine extract at high speed on my computer. The "searching start sector" nonsense does not happen here.

I had an old version of CDDAE archived on my computer so I copied it to the new one for a test. Checking the options ‘Read Twice" and "Verify," the overall extraction speed for a long CD was 27.1X. Some individual track speeds reached 36X+. The slowness and hesitation problems seems to be EAC, not the drive.