hi,

i am on linux and my cdrom is a kind of cached drive. i heard
cdparanoia is not safe on the class of cdroms. so i wanna ask, what do
i do? does the cdda2wav help?

on the other hand, i still has anotehr CDROM ( actually a DVD writer ),
it's a ASUS DRW-1608P2S . where can i get know wheter this drive is
cached or not? since i am not equiped with a Windows , so i can not
run EAC to make sure of it.

thanks.

Have you actually tried extracting files using these drives?

Have you gone to the ASUS site and looked at the specs?

"Steven Woody" wrote ...
i am on linux and my cdrom is a kind of cached drive.
i heard cdparanoia is not safe on the class of cdroms.

What does "not safe" mean? Did you hear this from a
reliable source? Are they able to explain this remarkable
conclusion? Perhaps you should be asking *them*.

I can't imagine any kind of read function that could
possibly be "unsafe"?

William Sommerwerck wrote:
Have you actually tried extracting files using these drives?

yes, i really did. i can not image any kind of method to verify the
results.

Have you gone to the ASUS site and looked at the specs?

below link is all info about the drive on the ASUS's official site, but
it's brief and gets no intro about the audio-caching.

thanks.

Steven Woody wrote:
hi,

i am on linux and my cdrom is a kind of cached drive. i heard
cdparanoia is not safe on the class of cdroms. so i wanna ask, what
do i do? does the cdda2wav help?

on the other hand, i still has anotehr CDROM ( actually a DVD writer
), it's a ASUS DRW-1608P2S . where can i get know wheter this drive is
cached or not? since i am not equiped with a Windows , so i can not
run EAC to make sure of it.


Do you actually have a problem extracting audio from CD, or are you
imagining a problem. I have never heard of a CD-ROM without a cache,
actually at least several caches !

I've also never heard of an app being 'not safe' with any CD-ROM, except
the HP4020i with which nothing was ever safe - but that's a different story
!

geoff