[paranoia] Ricoh 6200S writer (forward)

[Monty]

This is for the sake of any 6200S users who may be searching for this
tidbit of information to get DAE working.

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> >I'm trying DAE with cdparanoia. The box is a 486 with a U34F (VLB
> >busmaster ultra scsi) with two HD's and a Ricoh 6200S writer.
> >I run Linux 2.2.9
> 
> >Audio extraction with cdda2wav works, and with near-zero cpuload.
> >When I try DAE with cdparanoia, I get SCSI transport errors. 
> >Despite the seemingly random errors, extracted files are always identical.
> >It's just that when a SCSI error occurs, the whole system freezes for a
> >few seconds, which is annoying.
> 
> >BTW: The CD is clean, and the SCSI subsystem is hooked up properly.
> >Do you have any clue what's going on?

[later response]

This reply is late, but maybe it's of help for others with a simular
problem: I tried various versions of cdparanoia, linux kernels, even
replaced the SG driver. Nothing helped. Finally I bit the bullet, created
a boot diskette (this is a linux only box) and upgraded the firmware of
the drive. And that did it.

So: people with Ricoh 6200S writer, that came with firmware rev 2.03 may
have to upgrade to firmware rev 2.40 if they encounter DAE problems.

BTW: the symptoms of the system "freezing" for a few seconds were caused
by a SCSI bus reset, something I found out only when it happened to me
when I was not using X and the actual messages ended up on the console...

Keep up the good work :-)

Greetings,
JanJaap

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GNU mingw32: http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32

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