[paranoia] major hurdle - total lockup

[Marc Williams]

Rats.  And I really was crossing my fingers too.  Didn't work.  Same
results as before.  (I keep rotating my CDs just to insure it's not a
bad CD too).

I anxiously await further assistance from you Doug or anyone else.  I'm
stumped.

Marc

<p>On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 09:58, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Marc Williams wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks Doug.  Would your advice still hold if I told you that I just
> > tried out cdda2wav with the following command and it completed
> > correctly?:
> > 
> > cdda2wav -B -t 1+3 -I cooked_ioctl -D /dev/cdrom
> >
> > Logically, I would then ask why cdda2wav seems to work but not
> > cdparanoia?  I want to use cdparanoia since a couple of front ends I'd
> > like to use require it
> 
> There is a weakness in the IDE driver in the lk 2.4
> series. It tries to autotune for maximum IDE bus
> throughput (which means using DMA aggressively).
> However if something goes wrong during a DMA transfer
> then it is unable to recover gracefully.
> 
> You do not need 33, 66, 100 or 133 MB/sec on your IDE
> bus to talk to a cdrom, even one that claims to
> do "x50". BTW "x1" is about 150 KB/sec.
> 
> > And to address your other statement, my /dev/cdrom is pointing to
> > /dev/hdc so I assume I would merely substitute accordingly?
> 
> Yes, try either:
>      hdparm -d0 -c1 /dev/hdc
>      hdparm -d 1 -X 34 /dev/hdc
> 

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