[paranoia] Drive problems

[jonathan_ricketson at freeserve.com]

Hi, I am using cdparanoia to rip music :)
Unfortunately I am having some problems with it. Sometimes it does not 
seem to actually get to reading info from the drive, instead 
(occasionally) it makes noises, like the motor is moving in small 
increments and some squeaking noises, and nothing happens for a minute or 
so. Other times it does that and it does figure out how to read from it 
and it proceeds normally, and sometimes it just happens straight away 
without all the squeaking.

Anyway even after that it takes about 10 hours to rip a whole cd, which 
seems to be a long time. Do you have any ideas what I can do to: 1 speed 
things up; 2 get cdparanoia to read the cd drive properly?

anyway here is all the uninteresting output that cdparanoia gives. Both 
output are with the same cd on consecutive commands with absolutely no 
hardware or software changes.

--the output when it can figure it out:
[21:31:37 root:/root]# cdparanoia -vQ
cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001)
(C) 2001 Monty <monty at xiph.org> and Xiphophorus

Report bugs to paranoia at xiph.org
http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/

Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom...
        Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface
                CDROM sensed: ATAPI compatible UJDA150

Verifying drive can read CDDA...
        Expected command set reads OK.

Table of contents (audio tracks only):
track        length               begin        copy pre ch
===========================================================
  1.    23173 [05:08.73]       32 [00:00.32]    no   no  2
  2.    22545 [05:00.45]    23205 [05:09.30]    no   no  2
  3.    24052 [05:20.52]    45750 [10:10.00]    no   no  2
  4.    20758 [04:36.58]    69802 [15:30.52]    no   no  2
  5.    28615 [06:21.40]    90560 [20:07.35]    no   no  2
  6.    20017 [04:26.67]   119175 [26:29.00]    no   no  2
  7.    21595 [04:47.70]   139192 [30:55.67]    no   no  2
  8.    20175 [04:29.00]   160787 [35:43.62]    no   no  2
  9.    27953 [06:12.53]   180962 [40:12.62]    no   no  2
 10.    18922 [04:12.22]   208915 [46:25.40]    no   no  2
 11.    24218 [05:22.68]   227837 [50:37.62]    no   no  2
 12.    23885 [05:18.35]   252055 [56:00.55]    no   no  2
 13.    24897 [05:31.72]   275940 [61:19.15]    no   no  2
TOTAL  300805 [66:50.55]    (audio only)

--The output when cdparanoia can't figure it out:
[21:32:03 root:/root]# cdparanoia -vQ
cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001)
(C) 2001 Monty <monty at xiph.org> and Xiphophorus

Report bugs to paranoia at xiph.org
http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/

Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom...
        Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface
                CDROM sensed: ATAPI compatible UJDA150

Verifying drive can read CDDA...

        Unable to read any data; drive probably not CDDA capable.
006: Could not read any data from drive

Cdparanoia could not find a way to read audio from this drive.

Jonathan Ricketson
please reply to jonathan at permanent.com

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