[LAU] Slightly off topic question.

[fruity]

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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