[paranoia] annoying rip problem, need help (long debug msg)

[Hyung-song Nam]

Hi Monty,
Thanks for the advise! I've emailed Plextor and got a suggestion (clean the
drive), but it doesn't seem to help too much. I'm calling them tomorrow; I don't
know if the drive is still in warranty though.

The problem occurs only sporadically; most CD's will rip w/o any problem, but
when the problem happens, I can't rip at all..

By the way, does -S option require MMC support? For drives that does support
MMC, what values does this take? (n=integer-->1x, 2x, so forth?)

Thanks!

  Hyung-song Nam / nam at wi.mit.edu / hsnam at speakeasy.net
  Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
  9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Monty wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 01:50:17AM -0500, Hyung-song Nam wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I got fed up w/ crappy rips from my Plextor32TS on MacOS, and so I
> > installed linuxppc and cdparanoia. It's working great for most CD's (great
> > job Monty), but for some CD's, no matter what settings I use, the rip just
> > halts and freezes my system before SCSI times out. Shown below is an
> > output from one such rip session. The CD is 99% scratch-free, and is one
> > of the cleaner CD's. It still results in the error. Can somebody
> > help? Thanks!!
> 
> Plextors are unusual for cdrom drives in that their firmware will try
> forever to get clean rips on a damaged or defective disk.  That's
> likely the cause of the scsi timeout.
> 
> However, it's not normal for a Plextor to have so much trouble regularly.
> Usually problem discs are pretty obvious.  I'd contact Plextor with
> the possibility you have a damaged or faulty drive.
> 
> Monty
> 
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