[ale] Rehat 9 ide-scsi

[Matthew Macumber]

What program are you using to rip the cd's?
I won't trust anything other than cdparanoia.

-matt

On August 27, 2003 09:56 pm, Dow Hurst wrote:
> The reason I am posting this is that even though I can set the DVD
> reader to use dma, Grip still produces pops and thumps in the encoded
> ogg files.  I thought setting the drive to use dma would make the
> difference but I still get problems with the quality of the output.  I
> thought then that going to the ide-scsi emulation would work but so far
> Grip won't use the device properly.  I've put the hdc=ide-scsi in
> /etc/grub.conf just like you've shown.  It works just fine and the
> /dev/scd1 is now the device that is the active scsi emulation device.
> I can read the CD titles using it but the rip doesn't happen normally,
> it goes really quick with no output.  No encoding takes place.  I'm just
> working on getting my CDs encoding in ogg format prior to burning on a
> DVD. :-)
> I wanted nice sounding ogg files before I went any further.  I have set
> the bitrate for encoding to 192 and the quality for oggenc to level 6.
> Doesn't help with the /dev/cdrom using dma and no ide-scsi emulation.
>
> The order I've tried this stuff:
>
> /dev/cdrom  no dma        sounded horrible with distortion, pops, and
> thumps /dev/cdrom  with dma      sounded better but still has predictable
> pops and thumps
> /dev/scd1   with ide-scsi no rips happening
>
> I am working on classical CDs since you can distinctly hear the problems
> where rock hides some of the pops and thumps.  Thanks for the help,
> Dow
>
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> >It goes in grub as it's needed at boot time:
> >
> >title Custom kernel (2.4.18 xfs & ext3 and good USB)
> >        root (hd0,0)
> >        kernel /kernel-2.4.18-LNS1.2 ro root=/dev/hda5 hdd=ide-scsi
> >
> >On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 19:35, Dow Hurst wrote:
> >>In Redhat 9, where do you put the ide-scsi=hdc command?  I'm used to
> >>SuSE and in /etc/sysconfig/ there is a file for that purpose.  You can
> >>put which IDE devices should be treated with the SCSI emulation.  I
> >>can't find this under RedHat.  There is a hwinfo file that shows what is
> >>currently configured but not a place for defining the configuration.  I
> >>was avoiding modifying /etc/grub.conf since I thought RedHat might have
> >>provided a more elegant way of managing this.  I am just too used to
> >>German engineering?  Anyway, I just want /dev/hdc emulated as a SCSI
> >> device. Dow

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