Re: dma ripping

Philip Dodd
2004-05-20T02:31:13Z

Philip Dodd wrote:
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> Intel i820 Chipset on P3C-D mobo.
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xa800-0xa807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> hda: ASUS DVD-ROM E616, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
>
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xa808-0xa80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> hdc: RICOH CD-R/RW MP7060A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
>
> Now hda is the one that bogs out, ripping silence after the "cdrom:
> dropping to single frame dma" error. hdc can rip for hours and hardly
> ever get cdparanoia errors - even on "problematic" CDs that would appear
> to be a declenching factor for the single frame dma switch for hda.
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Hi - just a quick update: after ripping 5Gb of oggs hdc "went funny" -
DMA was disabled and after hdc just stopped ripping altogether.

I've moved back to ide-scsi and am using that as a workaround, as it now
appears as the only way of getting this stuff working.

Many thanks;

Phil