[Paranoia] CD drive stuttering problem

[Karl Heller]

Using -Z turns off any error checking... probably not what you want to 
do.

Karl


On Sep 8, 2004, at 9:01 AM, Chris wrote:

> Peter Jones wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 18:59 +1000, Chris wrote:
>>
>>> I reported the problem a while back that some of my CDs ripping 
>>> would slow to a crawl half way through (like a week to rip one CD) 
>>> and the resulting qualtity was bad.  I'm noticing that the current 
>>> version of RealPlayer ripper works fine with these CDs, so I've had 
>>> to abandon paranoia.
>>>
>>
>> That's interesting -- one person tested pretty heavily and found this 
>> to
>> be bug which occurs only when using the cooked-ioctl kernel interface
>> while your drive isn't set up to use DMA.
>>
>> His report is here:
>> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109389595920785&w=2
>> Is that the same thing you were seeing?
>>
>
> Well I didn't get all zeros like this person did. I got an actual 
> audio track whose quality deteriated to awful at the point where the 
> ripping slowed down to a crawl.
>
> However when I add the -N1 -Z flags as per that article, the problem 
> doesn't seem to occur. The rip process doesn't slow to a crawl but 
> breezes through very fast.
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