Joerg Schilling wrote: > 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.
Thanks for taking the time. - Jörg
