CD-Rom drive speed when ripping seems slow

[luixxiul]

hello, first time here.

I started using suse in these days for the first time, and since I feel this OS suitable for me I decided to keep it running on my computer. Then I let my computer ripping audio CDs in the pc, but I noticed that speed of ripping of a single CD was so slow. I've tried to configure it with eject command (eject -x speed) and it has seemed that was done, but I doubt it because there's no change. Also I used "set cd-rom speed" to configure, but the drive itself wasn't detected there. My computer is Thinkpad T42 (IBM, Lenovo), and when OS of the computer was windows, the drive speed could be configured with a tool provided by the vendor.

Here's the information of the drive:

Bus: IDE
Class (spec): CD-ROM
Class: Mass storage device
Device Name: /dev/hdc
Device Numvers: Major 22, Minor 0, Range 1, Type b
Device: UJDA755yDVD/CDRW (Matsushita)
Driver: PIIX_IDE
Interface: 3
Revision: 1.72
bus_hwcfg: ide
driver_module: piix
udi: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_UJDA755yDVD/CDRW

Could anyone give me tips?
thanks,

[luixxiul]

here's the archive of the page of the product:
PANASONIC Industrial Europe GmbH - UJDA770

[luixxiul]

add:
The drive is reading data only ~600KB/sec . It seems something wrong.