On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 09:02:44 +0200, Muni Sekhar wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am using a USB sound card(snd-usb-audio), and it fails while doing > the audio recording "arecord: pcm_read:2032: read error: Input/output > error". > > I noticed recording(arecord) audio data on a USB sound card fails at > SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_READI_FRAMES is giving EIO. > > Can someone please clarify when the kernel returns EIO for Ioctl > SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_READI_FRAMES? and is there a workaround for this? It's a problem of either your device (e.g. USB device firmware) or the kernel. Do you get any relevant kernel error messages? Takashi