[paranoia] major hurdle - total lockup

[Douglas Gilbert]

Marc,
Try turning off (or reducing) the DMA mode to that
ATAPI cdrom using one of these commands:
    hdparm -d0 -c1 /dev/hdd 
    hdparm -d 1 -X 34 /dev/hdd

This assumes that your cdrom is connected to /dev/hdd .

Doug Gilbert

<p>Marc Williams wrote:
> 
> I'm new to cdparanoia and I'm afraid I'm not getting very far.
> 
> I'll start a command like this:
> cdparanoia -B "1-"
> 
> One or two tracks will rip fine and then part way into a track and BAM!
> My whole computer will lock up tight with a stuck cursor, no keyboard,
> no error messages, and a hdd activity light stuck on.  Just completely
> frozen requiring a hard reset.  The upside to this is I've learned all
> about fsck.  :)
> 
> Cdparanoia compiled fine as near as I could tell.
> 
> The output of cdparanoia -vsQ is this:
> 
> 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 CD-ROM 50X
> 
> Verifying drive can read CDDA...
>         Expected command set reads OK.
> 
> Table of contents (audio tracks only):
> track        length               begin        copy pre ch
> ===========================================================
>   1.    14417 [03:12.17]        0 [00:00.00]    no   no  2
> (middle deleted for brevity)
>  10.    15753 [03:30.03]   136197 [30:15.72]    no   no  2
> TOTAL  151950 [33:46.00]    (audio only)
> 
> As indicated, I have a generic atapi 50x cdrom drive that is set for
> master on channel 2.  Running Redhat 7.1 that should be totally up to
> date with Ximian's Red Carpet.
> 
> Can someone please tell me what I should do next?  Thanks!
> 
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