[paranoia-announce] Cdparanoia release 9.6 now available

[Monty]

Cdparanoia 9.6 is now on the cdparanoia website and tagged in CVS.  This is an
update release to keep up with kernel changes, bugfixes and user patches until
release 10 (paranoia IV) is ready.

New features:

-S allows manual setting of speed on *some* drives.  This is not a complete
implementation of the feature; especially non-MMC SCSI drives won't work with
-S yet.  Complete implementation must wait for paranoia IV. (Patch submitted by
Matthew Kirkwood <weejock at ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>.

Japanese manpage translation included as cdparanoia.1.jp (submitted by
Teruyoshi Fujiwara <fjwr at mtj.biglobe.ne.jp>.  Japanese manpage also on the
website.

Updates and fixes:

2.3.x kernels now impose an interface convention that seems a little odd, but
what the heck; they require that CDROM ioctl() devices be opened with
O_NONBLOCK.  This new development in 2.3.10+ broke cdparanoia.  Now fixed.
(Issue reported by Joerg Plate, Gilbert Ramirez and Dale Martin)

Cdparanoia was being aggressive about demanding big DMA pools with the new SG
driver; I backed off to a 32k read size as in 9.4 and earlier until I can write
more robust code to deal with machines that have severe DMA memory
restrictions. It also turns out there was a bounds error on big transfers (also
fixed).

If /dev/sg* devices other than cdrom drives were readable, autosense could
deadlock due to forgetting to release FDs opened (O_EXCL) during the scan.
Fixed. (reported by Karl Carsten)

Updated contact info now that xiph.org is stable.

Added a patch to identify old Toshiba CDROM drives with the vendor string
"Toshiba CDROM" that misreport themselves as fixed disks (patch from Dominique
LARCHEY-WENDLING <Dominique.LARCHEY-WENDLING at loria.fr>)

Enjoy and Happy Hacking

Monty

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