Sure,

If you take a look at AH's post above that's a good start. It's important that you save this as an EAC profile. Why? Sometimes you come across discs that are damaged and will not rip in a month of Sundays using EAC's accurate mode, in which case you need to switch to burst mode or use a different ripping tool.

When ripping multiple discs in a single session, keep an eye on the the number of compression tasks queing up in the background. If the machine crashes during this period you need to go back and work out exactly where you got to.

All of the above assumes of course that you're using EAC, but I'm sure the same principles apply whatever you end up using.

Follow the advice about the slimdevices forum. There are many very helpful people there who really buy into the whole "open source" thing. If you post a problem you generally get very helpful replies.

Don't worry about CDRDAO unless you want to write CDR's from EAC. The main difference between the Tag & rename versions in practice is the user interface options, but both seem to do the job well.

Hope this helps a little.