[paranoia] poor quality & glitches - all tracks on CD show unreported loss of streaming

[Adam Hardy]

On 10/22/2003 03:35 AM Rob Allegar wrote:
> I had this *exact* problem too. +++++ all the way through and the audio
> sounds clipped every few seconds.
> 
> Turns out that my DMA setting on my drive was bad. Well, so I thought. I
> originally had 2 CD-ROM drives in my machine, ripped CDS for a while
> perfectly for several months. One day I took one of my drives out and
> ever since had problems with any ripping program. I checked master/slave
> settings, the IDE cable, everything. For some reason, even though DMA
> was set correctly and Linux was picking it up my cds could not be
> ripped. I put the other CD back in, and everything went back to normal
> and now I can rip consistantly without any errors.
> 
> Over the course of about 2 weeks I tried every combination of cable
> setting, jumper setting, and CD-ROM positioning, and I *could not* get
> cdparanoia to work unless I had *both* cd-rom drives installed. 
> 
> My primary CD-ROM is a TDK 32/10/10 which has worked flawlessly since.
> But I still have an extra cheapo no-name 52x drive which basically sits
> there. If I take it out my TDK stops working and I get all ++++ again
> even though its in DMA mode.
> 
> Maybe someone on the list has a technical reason for why this is
> happening, but I'd hazard a guess that maybe you recently changed your
> hardware configuration on your machine.
> 
> Rob

I have a windows machine with two CD drives on a SCSI daisy chain, and I 
couldn't get the CD-RW to write - OK, not a cdparanoia problem, but I 
sent emails back and forth for weeks with the Adaptec support but got no 
solution. I often wonder whether linux would handle the situation 
better, but as for cdparanoia on my linux box, this is the only CD I am 
having problems with. I have ripped CDs since without problem.

Adam

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