atrocity;513790 Wrote: 
> On 4 Feb 2010 at 10:51, matka wrote:
> 
> > When you are saying "checksum" which checksum do you mean ? file
> > checksum or flac audio stream info checksum "--show-md5sum" ?
> 
> The latter. 
> 
> The fact that four of the five files were identical suggests to me that
> it 
> wasn't a configuration issue.
This is troubling for me. cdparanoia was updated September 11, 2008 to
version cdparanoia III 10.2. 

>       
> September 11, 2008
> 
> cdparanoia 10.2 final released
> 
> 10.2 is a substantial upgrade release over 10.1.
> 
> 10.2 includes a raft of minor bugfixes in device scan, device autosense
> and the transport layer.
> 
> More importantly, 10.2 addresses serious CDROM drive cache modelling
> deficiencies that exist in earlier versions. In a nutshell, a sizable
> fraction of modern drives exhibit new and exciting readahead cache
> abuses/bugs of which older versions of cdparanoia were not fully aware.
> This means that skips and cracks could slip through the cache management
> strategy of older versions completely undetected. 10.2 fully addresses
> and models these new cache behaviors.
> 
> 10.2 also includes a cache analysis option (-A) to do a slow and
> thorough offline check of the drive's cache behavior. The feature also
> dumps a detailed log to assist in debugging should either the test or
> cdparanoia's ripping go awry in any way. After all... better thoroughly
> safe than sorry. 
Do you still have that CD ? I wonder if you could do another test after
ensuring that the newest software is used. I'm asking for much here, but
this really bothers me. Thanks.


-- 
matka

George

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