Jörg Schaible <[email protected]> wrote: > > There is a set of red-book deviations that is called "cactus datashield" > > > > cdparanoia will not extract more than 40 seconds from such a "CD" > > regardless of the drive you are using. > > > > With cdda2wav you will be able to extract the whole "CD" as long as the > > drive is not cunfused by the media and as long as you don't run hostile > > software like "hald" or similar that helps to confuse the drive. > > At least from konsole I can use cdda2wav with normal speed, while the > ripping KDE apps all seem to fail. Since KDE is still based on hald, about > what kind of effects you're talking?
The defects seen in "cactus datashield" will cause many drives to go into an endless loop in firmware in case you send the READ TOC command to the drive. Hald was written by people who know too few about CD-ROM handling and as hald and other programs (e.g. libGStreamer and cdparanoia) send a READ TOC to the drive, they may trigger this problem. The only way out of this problem is to mechanically reload the media and not to let any other program access the drive except for cdda2wav. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
