[paranoia] hidden tracks

[Aaron Gage]

I'm using cdparanoia (and notlame) to make an MP3 jukebox of my CD collection.
So far, cdparanoia has allowed me to copy over 700 tracks without incident.

However, now I'm trying to do the unusual discs that needed extra attention.
In particular, one disc (They Might Be Giants, Factory Showroom) has a
hidden track before the first track.  On a conventional CD player, this can
be found by rewinding past the beginning of the first track for about
45 seconds.

As expected, cdparanoia shows that the starting sector for track 1 is
not 0 or 32, but 4575, which means that the TOC is pointing to the gap
between the hidden track and the first listed track.

So I'd like to be able to rip the hidden track.

I tried using the following command (kernel 2.2.5-15, Redhat 6.0,
Creative 52X IDE CD-ROM):

cdparanoia -zX -t -4543 1 temp.wav

That is, I tried to begin ripping at what should be track 32.  However, doing
this locked up my machine hard.

I tried doing less aggressive offsets, such as -t -100, and did not notice
anything about the result (I think it did manage to grab a little extra
silence before the first track).  However, -t -1000 produced a number of
errors (these are pulled from /var/log/messages; I've trimmed the timestamp
and machine name out; hdc is the aforementioned drive):

hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } 
hdc: packet command error: error=0x54 
ATAPI device hdc: 
  Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05) 
  Illegal mode for this track or incompatible medium -- (asc=0x64, ascq=0x00) 
  The failed "<NULL>" packet command was:  
  "be 04 00 00 00 20 00 00 08 f8 00 00 " 

This was repeated almost a thousand times before I could kill it.

So.  I know the data is there, and I /should/ be able to start reading
at track 32 or so, but any attempt to do so puts me afoul of the kernel
(or locks the machine altogether).  Any suggestions as to how I can get
this hidden track?

Thanks.

--Aaron

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