There are actually 2 instances where my cdrom doesn't work: a) opening with right click on the desktop b) cdparanoia I played a DVD on it last night with mplayer and it worked perfectly. I just burned a CDR with k3b and it worked perfectly. Could we try getting it to open and unmount from the desktop and then move to cdparanoia ? I'll test the work around if you want. Let me know. On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 11:33 -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 11:50 -0700, Kim Lux wrote: > > cdparanoia ripped this song before without any issues. It has now been > > running for 15 minutes and has not finished it. Notice the "V"s and "+" > > in the rip status. V = uncorrect error/skip. '+' = Unreported loss of > > streaming/other error in read. > > This many V's and +'s (and I suspect it says +++ then goes back and > updates them to V's) tends to mean the data it's getting back from the > read commands are completely bogus. > > > I feel silly reporting errors about cd ripping, but I think it best > > illustrates the cdrom issues. > > Go right ahead and report them; cdparanoia works the same way as many > other programs, but the pattern can stress different things than some > others. > > > On the bright side the sys log is entirely clean during all this. > > Eh, I'd rather see errors when something goes horribly wrong... > > > Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom... > > DMA scatter/gather table entries: 1 > > table entry size: 131072 bytes > > maximum theoretical transfer: 55 sectors > > Setting default read size to 24 sectors (56448 bytes). > > Well, I saw something like what you're seeing when I was testing, but > there's a workaround which succeeded on all the hardware I could find. > Maybe it doesn't work on yours... > > Can you try the cdparanoia-alpha9.8-24.0test1 packages at > http://people.redhat.com/pjones/cdparanoia/fc3/ ? > > -- > Peter > -- Kim Lux (Mr.) Diesel Research Inc