[Paranoia] Ripping scratched CDs: hangups

[R. Bernstein]

Jonathan Morace writes:
 ...
 > I found this was being caused by SCSI
 > command timeouts.  I was able to increase the 5 second timeouts in the
 > cdparanoia code and prevent it from happening.  It will still happen
 > if the timeout I set is reached before the command returns, but I made
 > it long enough that my patience was sure to run out before the
 > timeout, causing me to cancel the process :).

Hmm..., that is an interesting idea. For the next release of libcdio
and cd-paranoia, I will probably add a way to specify a (SCSI) MMC
timeout value. Thanks!