which conditions eac blocks the system, invalidates or
even "s.m.a.r.t." degrades (regarding write speed) your
harddisk....
it's simple.
if you have a cd which is not properly centered _and_
have a cd reader which does not damp the vibrations which
occur then, you will notice enormous noise from your drive.
stop ripping then! make sure you have not blocked your
drive during rips (best remove the option to do so, andre!)
so you can quickly open the tray to safe your disk.
most hard disks are fixed as a "mechanical slave" below the
cd-rom slot, they will receive the same vibration on their
write heads, and this while writing (ouch).
they will under worst case scanario (which i know well)
fail to write at all, if you are lucky they will be able
to tell the os they do so, if not, they will degrade themself.
if you know your drive sometimes is not only loud in producing
noise but also does a noticable "bass" sound, try finding
out it's maximum, non bassy speed and limit it in eac drive prefs.
deadlocks are typically produced when eac tries to update it's
cddb database _while_ the drive still did not succeed writing
out the rip under vibration (drives today are shock proof
for vibrations below a few milli seconds but still fail for
longer times _and_ record the condition for the relating
section of the drive in their smart system, which i have
not found a tool yet to reset)
so no eac bug, just reality
this is NOT eac specific, but fact for ANY rippings...
safe your disk, just rip "bassless"!