[paranoia] scsi_read error - guidance required.

T. trucido at club88.co.nz
Wed Jun 5 12:19:11 PDT 2002



This answer doesnt leave me with much hope :(

The writer in my box is running flawlessly for cd writing, dont really
want to mess with it.

Might have to get another cdrom for the box if noone else has a
solution.

Thanks alot for the speedy reply.

<p>On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 12:58:28 -0600
Clinton <daimaou at axisavant.com> wrote:

> I had the exact same problem you are having.  Here's how I solved it.
> 
> I would recommend not using SCSI emulation (I know it is required to
> use the burner).  What I did is force my burner use SCSI emulation in
> LILO and left my DVD drive as an IDE device.  Once I did this, then
> cdparanoia began working fine in the DVD drive and I was able to
> finally turn every CD I own into a bunch of ogg files.
> 
> The cdparanoia documentation says that using SCSI emulation is the way
> to go, but I personally think it sucks and doesn't work.  I looked
> everywhere for help, but came up empty.
> 
> Cdparanoia is really cool as it has been able to rip some CDs I have
> that were pretty beat up.  Since making the above changes, I've been
> really happy with it.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-paranoia at xiph.org [mailto:owner-paranoia at xiph.org] On
> Behalf Of T.
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 12:42 PM
> To: paranoia at xiph.org
> Subject: [paranoia] scsi_read error - guidance required.
> 
> I was hoping for a little help in solving a problem.
> 
> Linux Debian - Unstable
> cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001)
> abcde v2.0.3.
> 
> 1ghz AMD with 512mb RAM
> HP 9100+ CD Writer
> 
> At the bottom of this email is 3 examples I've taken from rips:
> 
> a. The first is a standard song rip that goes very well. 70% of all my
> rips look like this one.
> b. Hidious and messy and takes about 4 hours to rip the single song.
> 5% of all rips are like this.
> c. Averagely horrible, taking about an hour to rip a song. 25% look
> like this.
> 
> The problem is, my cds are perfect quality - zero scratches and I can
> rip them perfectly in windows. But in linux I'm having problems as can
> be seen in my examples below. Given the huge amount of scsi related
> spam I get I naturally decided that was the cause, so I went to the
> website and found out that /dev/sg0 should be used. Presently I use
> /dev/scd0. I cant use sg0, it cant read the cdrom.
> 
> All finished ogg files sound fine when played (except for the 5% that
> fail outright) - this is not the problem. What is the problem is the
> HUGE amount of spam and the extra time it takes to rip and encode due
> to this spam. 25% of all songs I rip takes an HOUR to complete. 5% of
> all songs I rip NEVER finish (I give up about the 5 hour mark)
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> =======EXAMPLES==============
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------
> [[ a. Here is an common example of a single song rip ]]
> 
> Grabbing track 1: Communication Breakdown...
> 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/
> 
> Ripping from sector       0 (track  1 [0:00.00])
>           to sector   11204 (track  1 [2:29.29])
> 
> outputting to /home/public/ogg/abcde.d411160f/track1.wav
> 
>  (== PROGRESS == [>                             | 000231 00 ] == :^D .
> ==)   scsi_read error: sector=261 length=13 retry=0
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=261 length=6 retry=1
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=261 length=3 retry=2
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=261 length=1 retry=3
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=261 length=1 retry=4
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=261 length=1 retry=5
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=261 length=1 retry=6
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=261 length=1 retry=7
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=261 length=1 retry=8
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
>  (== PROGRESS == [e                            !| 011204 00 ] == :^D *
> ==)   
> 
> Done.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------------------------
> [[ b. Here is an example of a very messy section of song rip ]]
> 
> scsi_read error: sector=189753 length=1 retry=7
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=189753 length=1 retry=8
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
>  (== PROGRESS == [  e  e+ e e    e  VV>        | 192718 00 ] == :-) O
> ==)   scsi_read error: sector=192875 length=13 retry=0
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
>  (== PROGRESS == [  e  e+ e e    e  VV>        | 192994 00 ] == :-P o
> ==)   scsi_read error: sector=193152 length=13 retry=0
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=193152 length=6 retry=1
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=193152 length=3 retry=2
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=193152 length=1 retry=3
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=193152 length=1 retry=4
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=193152 length=1 retry=5
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=193152 length=1 retry=6
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=193152 length=1 retry=7
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=193152 length=1 retry=8
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
>  (== PROGRESS == [  e  e+ e e    e  VV e e>   | 198172 00 ] == :-) O
>  ==)
>   scsi_read error: sector=198323 length=13 retry=0
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=198323 length=6 retry=1
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
>  (== PROGRESS == [  e  e+ e e    e  VV e e  > | 201319 00 ] == :-)  
>  ==)
>   scsi_read error: sector=201477 length=13 retry=0
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------------------------
> [[ c. Another quick example ]]
> 
> scsi_read error: sector=115653 length=1 retry=6
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
>  (== PROGRESS == [            e +      >        | 121054 00 ] == :-) o
> ==)   scsi_read error: sector=121101 length=13 retry=0
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=121101 length=6 retry=1
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=121101 length=3 retry=2
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=121101 length=1 retry=3
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=121101 length=1 retry=4
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=121101 length=1 retry=5
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=121101 length=1 retry=6
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=121101 length=1 retry=7
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=121101 length=1 retry=8
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
>  (== PROGRESS == [            e +      e>       | 122081 00 ] == :-) .
> ==)   scsi_read error: sector=122239 length=13 retry=0
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> scsi_read error: sector=122239 length=6 retry=1
>                  Sense key: 3 ASC: 2 ASCQ: 0
>                  Transport error: Medium reading data from medium
>                  System error: Input/output error
> 
> 
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