The problem is quite simple. I have an IDE writer. I use the SCSI emulation. I removed the ide-cd module. I disabled any mounting and automounting program. Everything that implies writing or reading works well (either scsi or atapi). But not the audio ripping.

It just starts. And nothing more. With time there appear scsi timeouts. It happens both with cdparanoia and cdda2wav (both with libparanoia or without).

It started when I upgraded from MDK8.2 to MDK9.1. I thought this was a bug although I received no help where I asked around. I upgraded to MDK9.2 and the problem is still there. I wanted to try RH9 but most my disks have XFS and RH9 has no idea of this filesystem. I'm quite glad with the move from gcc2.96 to gcc3 and the other updates. And not sure if a downgrade won't mess with my configurations.

Can you give me any hint? Or is there any info I should add?

Maybe you find something helpful in paranoia mailing-list archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/paranoia/index.html

I already posted that question on their list. And no answer in a few days.

Via the archives I find out that the 686B southbridge from Via might be the problem. But I never had any problem in the same configuration with MDK8.2. So any hardware problem is out of the question.

so...

can you burn with it?
what is the output of cdrecord -scanbus?
do you have permissions for /dev/cdrom /dev/scd# /dev/sg# /dev/sr#?
do you have permissions for /usr/bin/cdparanoia /usr/bin/cdda2wav?

you could provide a lot more info...


later

Yes. It is written in my initial message Everything that implies writing or reading works well (either scsi or atapi).

To avoid the permission problems I went as root.

What more info should I provide? The -scanbus option shows a normal empty list with the first position occupied by my writer - the exact version, correct identification.

If you are using a 2.6 kernel (or possibly a 2.4 kernel), try removing all that SCSI emulation everything, and then try it....also try it for cd burning too, I burn a CD like this:



That is what I would try anyways...