[LAU] Slightly off topic question.

hollunder at gmx.at hollunder at gmx.at
Sun Dec 23 16:19:34 EST 2007


On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:54:03 +0100
fruity <fruity at freaknet.org> 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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