[paranoia] IDE drive rip problems

[Casey Allen Shobe]

I thought I'd forward this to the list to benefit anyone who's 
experienced/ing similar issues.

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Ah!  I should have seen this earlier.  Classic IDE problem...IDE can only use 
one drive on the channel at a time..it has to switch back and forth.  I use 
sda as my main drive, but hda for music.  I'll try hdc or sda tomorrow.

- Casey

On Thursday 17 January 2002 12:19 am, Ray Heasman wrote:
> Hi Casey,
>
> Ok. I have found a workaround (I think).
>
> I was using gkrellm (a system monitor) and noticed that the hangups would
> happen as soon as the kernel starts flushing data to the harddisk, hda in
> this case (DVDROM is hdb).
>
> Things would go slow until the writes to hda finished, and suddenly I
> would get my machine back again. I have scads of RAM so this would happen
> about twice per track. The writes were incredibly slow though.
>
> So I tried ripping onto another harddisk. Ripping to hdc _seems_ to work
> reliably. I can actually max out my ROM now.
>
> I am not happy with this as a final solution, but if a similar fix works
> for you I think it could be an important clue...
>
> Oh, I forgot to specify my CPU:
>
> Initializing CPU#0
> Detected 1239.049 MHz processor.
>
> CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
> CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
> CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000
> CPU:     After generic, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000
> CPU:             Common caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 02
> Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
>
> Keep well,
> Ray
>
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 23:48:16 -0500
>
> Casey Allen Shobe <cshobe at softhome.net> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 January 2002 10:45 pm, Ray Heasman wrote:
> > > All disk access goes really slow, and even locks my shells.
> >
> > Eep, that's worse than mine.
> >
> > > I thought we could compare notes and see if there are any similarities
> > > to our systems:
> > >
> > > 1) The drive I am ripping from is setup as an IDE slave.
> >
> > Same here.  Primary channel.
> >
> > > 2) I am not using ide-scsi for the drive.
> >
> > Nor am I.
> >
> > > 3) Distribution is Mandrake 8.1 + bits of cooker.
> >
> > Linux-from-scratch here.
> >
> > > 4) version of cdparanoia:
> > >
> > > cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001)
> > > (C) 2001 Monty <monty at xiph.org> and Xiphophorus
> >
> > cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001)
> > (C) 2001 Monty <monty at xiph.org> and Xiphophorus
> >
> > > 5) Library rpm:
> > > libcdda0-IIIa9.8-3mdk
> >
> > Compiled from source.
> >
> > > 6) I have an ALi motherboard that makes the linux kernel whine at me
> > > about IRQs on bootup. I wonder if that is causing part of the problem.
> > > :-(. Here is the output of lspci:
> >
> > I have a Via chipset.  No IRQ issues that I know of.
> >
> > > 7) Kernel is 2.4.13, a custom compile.
> >
> > 2.4.17, custom.
> >
> > > Well, I hope this helps both of us and we can find a cause. Please let
> > > me know if you find a similarity or a solution. I'll do the same.
> >
> > No solutions yet.  I find that it locks up more predictably when there is
> > high load on the system, i.e. running setiathome.
> >
> > --
> > Casey Allen Shobe
> > cshobe at softhome.net
> >
> > 'Why do people with closed minds always open their mouths?'


-- 
Casey Allen Shobe
cshobe at softhome.net

'Why do people with closed minds always open their mouths?'

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