I have been trying to rip some music CDs and it has been very frustrating. I get repeated failures using both the internal SATA DVD drive as well as an external USB drive. The errors below are fro the USB drive. When trying it using grip it will start fine on track 1, but by track 3 it will hang and I get the following errors: Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: sr 3:0:0:0: [sr1] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: sr 3:0:0:0: [sr1] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: sr 3:0:0:0: [sr1] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sr1, sector 0 Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: __ratelimit: 29 callbacks suppressed Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 0 Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 1 Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 2 Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 3 Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 4 Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 5 Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 6 Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 7 Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 8 Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 9 Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: sr 3:0:0:0: [sr1] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: sr 3:0:0:0: [sr1] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: sr 3:0:0:0: [sr1] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sr1, sector 240 Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: sr 3:0:0:0: [sr1] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: sr 3:0:0:0: [sr1] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: sr 3:0:0:0: [sr1] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track Dec 13 20:58:50 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sr1, sector 0 Dec 13 20:58:51 localhost kernel: sr 3:0:0:0: [sr1] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Dec 13 20:58:51 localhost kernel: sr 3:0:0:0: [sr1] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] Dec 13 20:58:51 localhost kernel: sr 3:0:0:0: [sr1] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track Dec 13 20:58:51 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sr1, sector 0 Dec 13 20:58:51 localhost kernel: sr 3:0:0:0: [sr1] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Dec 13 20:58:51 localhost kernel: sr 3:0:0:0: [sr1] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] Dec 13 20:58:51 localhost kernel: sr 3:0:0:0: [sr1] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track Dec 13 20:58:51 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sr1, sector 0 Dec 13 21:02:34 localhost ntpd[1386]: synchronized to 66.250.45.2, stratum 2 Sometimes if I eject the CD and try it again it works sometimes I have to reboot my system to get the DVD drive to work at all. Sometimes I have to power cycle the system before the internal drive is accessible again. These are the errors I get for the internal DVD drive: Dec 13 19:53:13 localhost kernel: ata2.00: limiting speed to UDMA/25:PIO4 Dec 13 19:53:13 localhost kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Dec 13 19:53:13 localhost kernel: ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:30:09/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 2352 in Dec 13 19:53:13 localhost kernel: cdb be 00 00 01 d9 4d 00 00 01 f8 00 00 00 00 00 00 Dec 13 19:53:13 localhost kernel: res 40/00:02:00:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Dec 13 19:53:13 localhost kernel: ata2.00: status: { DRDY } Dec 13 19:53:18 localhost kernel: ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Dec 13 19:53:23 localhost kernel: ata2: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset Dec 13 19:53:23 localhost kernel: ata2: soft resetting link Dec 13 19:53:28 localhost kernel: ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa1) Dec 13 19:53:28 localhost kernel: ata2.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) Dec 13 19:53:28 localhost kernel: ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) Dec 13 19:53:29 localhost kernel: ata2: soft resetting link Dec 13 19:53:29 localhost kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/25 Dec 13 19:53:29 localhost kernel: ata2: EH complete Dec 13 19:54:19 localhost kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Dec 13 19:54:19 localhost kernel: ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:30:09/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 2352 in Dec 13 19:54:19 localhost kernel: cdb be 00 00 01 d9 4d 00 00 01 f8 00 00 00 00 00 00 Dec 13 19:54:19 localhost kernel: res 40/00:02:00:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Dec 13 19:54:19 localhost kernel: ata2.00: status: { DRDY } Dec 13 19:54:24 localhost kernel: ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Dec 13 19:54:29 localhost kernel: ata2: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset Dec 13 19:54:29 localhost kernel: ata2: soft resetting link Dec 13 19:54:30 localhost kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/25 Dec 13 19:54:30 localhost kernel: ata2: EH complete Based on my experience so far it appears that using an external USB drive works better than using the internal. Has anybody else seen issues with accessing/ripping CDs? Thanks Paolo