[Paranoia] Zero Power (no volume) files produced when ide=nodma option is used to boot kernel

[Peter Jones]

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 13:03 -0700, Douglas A. Seifert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am running release 9.8 of cdparanoia
> 
> # cdparanoia --version
> cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001)
> (C) 2001 Monty <monty at xiph.org> and Xiphophorus
> 
> Due to a bug in my mainboard chipset, I must boot the kernel using the 
> ide=nodma flag.  However, when I do this, when I rip tracks from a cd, 
> the resulting wav files have no volume (if that makes sense).  They seem 
> to be the correct length, but if you play them, you get nothing but 
> silence for the duration of the song.  If I boot without using the 
> ide=nodma flag, ripping works normally.
> 
> I was wondering if this was a known bug or if there is something I can 
> do to get ripping to work when booting using ide=nodma.  FYI, running 
> custom 2.6.7 kernel with special EPIA patches on a EPIA M10000 mainboard.
> 

If you're consistently getting reads of all zeros, that's the kernel or
your hardware misbehaving, and there's really nothing cdparanoia can do
about it.
-- 
        Peter