Re: CD drive stuttering problem

On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 23:51 +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > Is there a technical reason that prevents the use of CDROM_SEND_PACKET
> > > instead of SG_IO ? ide-scsi shouldn't be used with 2.6 (according to
> > > Linux), the ATAPI interface (CDROM_SEND_PACKET) is prefered.
> >
> > SG_IO _is_ the supported ATAPI interface.  CDROM_SEND_PACKET is a
> > complete hack, and really isn't something programs should be using.
> > Neither of them is the old ide-scsi interface.
> 
> I've been digging through Google, and asking around on IRC, and haven't been 
> able to get that information. Thanks a lot ;-)
> 
> By the way, I'm writing some code to read the TOC by scanning the whole CD and 
> decoding the Q subchannel (I've been motivated by a copy of an audio CD which 
> doesn't play properly in my audio CD player, and I want to find out why). 
> Would that be helpful for cdparanoia ?

I've thought about that a couple of times; right now, I'm not sure how
to work it into the current codebase, but suggestions would be nice ;)

-- 
        Peter

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