In this day and age, it is also easy to verify rip integrity of any not-entirely-exotic CD against crowdsourced online databases, such as the AccurateRip and CUETools (CTDB) ones. If you enable CTDB metadata in EAC, it'll check both. CTDB has the additional advantage of also being able to tell you if a track matches bar a limited number of samples, and CUETools on your computer can also be used to
repair a rip under these conditions (or rather, spit out a new copy that's fixed). If you have any doubts about your rips you can always download the program and check them.
I have found that this tends to work much better than letting EAC chew away at problematic tracks in secure mode for hours on end. One CD I dragged home from a thrift store lately turned out to have a nasty tangential scratch about 2 cm in length (and some lesser ones), the absolute worst kind to have as it tends to throw off laser tracking. The affected track ripped in burst mode was reported to "differ in 40097 samples" across an interval of about 20 seconds. The same after finally finishing in secure mode after 2 hours (no kidding) gave "no match", which can't even be repaired.
So I used the first version for the repair, which I could have done a lot earlier...
(Now this particular type of defect may be particularly problematic for EAC's secure mode strategy, which tries to read the same sectors over and over. "Glossing over" the problematic area at 24X speed may not give the pickup enough time to get upset, whereas reading a small portion at much lower speed may return garbage a lot of the time.)