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

[DAVID BALAZIC]

From: Mikko Nummelin <mnummeli at cc.hut.fi> wrote:

>On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Adam Hardy wrote:
>
>> On 10/22/2003 09:09 AM Mikko Nummelin wrote:
>
>>> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Adam Hardy wrote:
>
>>>> The CD has some stupid virus on it to load in Windows and stop
>>>> ripping, but that shouldn't affect me like this, should it?
>
>>> I think the CD is protected by Cactus Data Shield. Anyway, if you put it
>>> in while using Windows, remember to press the Shift key for at least a
>>> minute to prevent autostart. If you already have made a mistake and got
>>> the malicious programs to your hard disk, you should carefully examine the
>>> registry.
>
>>> One question, are you using SCSI-emulation on your CD-drive? If the
>>> answer is yes, you should see
>
>>> http://www.xiph.org/archives/paranoia-dev/0112.html
>
>>> , i.e. try to alter the ripping command by hacking d->read_audio to
>>> scsi_read_D8 on scsi_interface.c
>
>> I don't believe I am using SCSI emulation. Is that a kernel option? This
>> is moving into the realm of rocket science for me.
>
>It is a kernel option (for example "hdc=ide-scsi") and used widely in
>Linux with CD-RW:s.

But only with ATAPI CD-ROM devices. I think Adam mentioned that
he has SCSI units.
Adam : It is helpful if you tell what equipment you have :-)
                                                            

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