[Paranoia] CD drive stuttering problem

[Joel Konkle-Parker]

I'm having a problem with my drive during cdparanoia rips. I'm on a Dell 
Inspiron 5150 with a Philips DVD+RW SDVD6004 and using cdparanoia III 
r9.8 on Gentoo.

I find that sometimes when I rip a CD, the drive "hiccups" somewhere in 
the process, and any digital playback after this point consists of a 
stuttering representation of the song instead of the song itself. Every 
ripped song after this point is usually empty, but sometimes will 
contains the stuttering sounds. I can still use the drive, but any 
normal DAE playback is impossible until I reboot the computer.

I've also found that this happens much more regularly (i.e. almost every 
attempt) when I try to rip a particular song from the CD (usually the 
song that triggered the problem in the first place) instead of ripping 
the entire CD over again.

The latest occurance happened with my Linkin Park CD. I tried ripping 
the entire CD using grip, but the problem happened half-way into the 
second-to-last track. I rebooted, and tried again with only the last two 
tracks. The problem happened almost immediately. Another reboot, and I 
tried the same tracks again, this time with "Extra Paranoia" turned off. 
Same problem. Another reboot, this time with "Use Paranoia" turned off. 
Same problem.

This is somewhat different from previous encounters I've had with this 
issue, when switching off various level of paranoia would fix it.

http://ballsome.com/sample.mp3 is a demonstration of what I'm hearing. 
This one is unusual because it captures the stuttering sound. Usually, 
the rest of the track will be silent, but every DAE playback after the 
attempt will produce the stuttering.

This problem is also described and demonstrated at 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59464

Can anyone think of what may be the problem here?




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Joel Konkle-Parker
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E-mail     [jjk3 at msstate.edu]