"Brooks R. Robinson" wrote: > > | when I try to rip the CD I get the following messages and the ripping > | is VERY slow (few hours per one song): > | > | Mar 24 04:10:09 localhost kernel: hdc: lost interrupt > | the situation is the same regardless of whether I use scsi emulation > | or not. > > Greetings, > I had the same problem a few months ago. The only thing that I found > was > that *perhaps* the hard drive controller was bad. I kept swapping drives > around to different channels and it turned out that my secondary controller > always seemed to be the culprit, not the drive, not the cable, not the OS. > I ended up purchasing a Maxtor PCI ATA/IDE/100 card, and everything is > working now. So, you might try re-cabling to see if it helps.
it works under windows, I should have tried it before but somehow I didn't. But after I sent the message you replied to I booted windows and ripped a song (I don't have a space for a whole album under windows) and it was ripped ok (fast), it created wav file that sounds the same (as far as I can tell) as CD itself. but I have found another strange behaviour: I can copy the whole data CD, no problems (fast, no errors, no messages in syslog). However when I run either of the following: cat /dev/hdc |od hdparam -t /dev/hdc the program (cat or hdparm) runs for awhile (5-10s) but then freezes (cannot even be kill-9-ed, which means that it's stuck in system call, I guess) and there are following messages in syslog (repeated over and over, even after shutdown prints out the Power down message, at that time they are displayed on the console): ... Mar 25 01:24:49 localhost kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 25 01:24:49 localhost kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30 Mar 25 01:24:52 localhost kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 25 01:24:52 localhost kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30 Mar 25 01:24:55 localhost kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 25 01:24:55 localhost kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30 Mar 25 01:24:55 localhost kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete Mar 25 01:24:55 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 3276 ... not sure how to do the same test under windows to see if that would work. erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]