FC3 disappointment: KsCD locks system; grip; CDROM in general.

[Kim Lux]

There are actually 2 instances where my cdrom doesn't work:

a) opening with right click on the desktop
b) cdparanoia

I played a DVD on it last night with mplayer and it worked perfectly.
I just burned a CDR with k3b and it worked perfectly. 

Could we try getting it to open and unmount from the desktop and then
move to cdparanoia ?

I'll test the work around if you want.  Let me know. 


On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 11:33 -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 11:50 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> > cdparanoia ripped this song before without any issues.  It has now been
> > running for 15 minutes and has not finished it.  Notice the "V"s and "+"
> > in the rip status.  V = uncorrect error/skip.  '+' = Unreported loss of
> > streaming/other error in read.
> 
> This many V's and +'s (and I suspect it says +++ then goes back and
> updates them to V's) tends to mean the data it's getting back from the
> read commands are completely bogus.
> 
> > I feel silly reporting errors about cd ripping, but I think it best
> > illustrates the cdrom issues. 
> 
> Go right ahead and report them; cdparanoia works the same way as many
> other programs, but the pattern can stress different things than some
> others.
> 
> > On the bright side the sys log is entirely clean during all this. 
> 
> Eh, I'd rather see errors when something goes horribly wrong...
> 
> > Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom...
> >         DMA scatter/gather table entries: 1
> >         table entry size: 131072 bytes
> >         maximum theoretical transfer: 55 sectors
> >         Setting default read size to 24 sectors (56448 bytes).
> 
> Well, I saw something like what you're seeing when I was testing, but
> there's a workaround which succeeded on all the hardware I could find.
> Maybe it doesn't work on yours...
> 
> Can you try the cdparanoia-alpha9.8-24.0test1 packages at
> http://people.redhat.com/pjones/cdparanoia/fc3/ ?
> 
> -- 
>         Peter
> 
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Kim Lux (Mr.)  Diesel Research Inc