Re: poor quality & glitches - all tracks on CD show unreported loss of streaming
Adam Hardy <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.audio.cd-paranoia.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 10/22/2003 03:35 AM Rob Allegar wrote: > I had this *exact* problem too. +++++ all the way through and the audio > sounds clipped every few seconds. > > Turns out that my DMA setting on my drive was bad. Well, so I thought. I > originally had 2 CD-ROM drives in my machine, ripped CDS for a while > perfectly for several months. One day I took one of my drives out and > ever since had problems with any ripping program. I checked master/slave > settings, the IDE cable, everything. For some reason, even though DMA > was set correctly and Linux was picking it up my cds could not be > ripped. I put the other CD back in, and everything went back to normal > and now I can rip consistantly without any errors. > > Over the course of about 2 weeks I tried every combination of cable > setting, jumper setting, and CD-ROM positioning, and I *could not* get > cdparanoia to work unless I had *both* cd-rom drives installed. > > My primary CD-ROM is a TDK 32/10/10 which has worked flawlessly since. > But I still have an extra cheapo no-name 52x drive which basically sits > there. If I take it out my TDK stops working and I get all ++++ again > even though its in DMA mode. > > Maybe someone on the list has a technical reason for why this is > happening, but I'd hazard a guess that maybe you recently changed your > hardware configuration on your machine. > > Rob I have a windows machine with two CD drives on a SCSI daisy chain, and I couldn't get the CD-RW to write - OK, not a cdparanoia problem, but I sent emails back and forth for weeks with the Adaptec support but got no solution. I often wonder whether linux would handle the situation better, but as for cdparanoia on my linux box, this is the only CD I am having problems with. I have ripped CDs since without problem. Adam --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Paranoia homepage: http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to '[email protected]' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.