Re: [LAU] Slightly off topic question.

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:54:03 +0100
fruity <fruity@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> Hi everyone.
>
> >From man cdparanoia, just to test:
> --
> EXAMPLES
>
> Query only with exhaustive search for a drive and full reporting of
> autosense:
>
> cdparanoia -vsQ
> --
>
> I also had to deal lately with faulty drives,
> open up a terminal while you rip and do as root:
>
> tail -f tail -f /var/log/kern.log
>
> If you get some errors between curly brackets like { DriveSeekComplete
> error } ( this is usually for hardisk but now I cannot remember the
> one for optical drives ) or similar than your drive is in bad shape,
> sorry. I whouls also sugest you to try to switch to scsi emulation
> more and to give a try like that.
> Now I cannot remember how is it 'cause I use native ide support since
> ages.
>
> Also try to do this is a terminal:
>
> zcat /proc/config.gz | grep CDROM
>
> And see how it differs from this one(mine)
>
> CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD=m
> CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS=8
> CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE=y
>
> Happy debugging :)
>
>
> Bill White wrote:
> > This is not really linux-audio related strictly, but maybe
> > someone on this list has an idea. I have an ubuntu feisty system,
> > and I'm trying to get CDROM ripping to work. I used to be able to
> > rip my own CDs using my DVD writer, but something has stopped
> > working, and I can't diagnose it.
> >
> > The failure mode is that the audio is read, but the reading is
> > really slow. The reader, cdparanoia, tells me that
> > there is a lot of "Unreported loss of streaming in atomic read
> > operation" errors, which it donotes with this emoticon:
> > :-P
> > The output is very noisy, with a lot of transient pops and clicks.
> > By "a lot" I mean an average of 3-4 a second. It's really annoying.
> >
> > The DVD reader reads CDs to play them, but it can't seem to read
> > them to rip them, which seems completely counterintuitive to me.
> > I don't have the cd audio cable connected, so I know the CDs are
> > being read using the DVD reader, and not being read through
> > the cd audio cable. The DVD Writer is an ATAPI writer, attached
> > to the IDE1 slot. There is no other device on this IDE interface,
> > and the DVD Writer is set to be an IDE master. So, the system sees
> > it as /dev/hdc.
> >
> > I have an ubuntu feisty system, with a 2.6.20-16 32-bit kernel
> > and an AMD 32 bit processor, not that that it really matters.
> >
> > Does anyone have (1) any clue as to why this fails, or (2) any
> > clues as to how to diagnose the problem?
> >
> > Thanks.
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Maybe also try to use a ripping application that does not use cdparanoia
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Received on Mon Dec 24 00:15:03 2007