Sata dvd burner and audio tracks (clicks)

jnengland77 · 2007-07-21 21:54:51

I built a new computer about two months ago when the old one died. It's been working great so far in almost all areas.
It's a core 2 duo system with 2 gigs of ram. Gigabyte DS3 (rev 3.3 I think) motherboard with ICH8 chipset.

I have achi enabled, and everything seems to be fine.

I have two sata lite-on dvd burners. When I rip music (or play cds for that matter) sometimes there are audio clicks on certain songs. This happens even with new audio cds. I rip them and there is always one song, the same song, that clicks in the same spot. I also noticed it happens when I directly copy a cd.
The clicks happen in the encoded music (tried both oggenc and lame thinking it was there fault). It doesn't do this when played with a stereo. I've also tried both top and bottom drives. I think it might be worse on the bottom drive. I've tried different programs, too. I currently use Grip. And recently switched to 2.6.22.1 with dark patchset from 2.6.20 ck.. That seemed to help a little, but not much.

This is what most programs give as an error message or similar from dmesg:

sg_write: data in/out 30576/30576 bytes for SCSI command 0xbe--guessing data in;
   program grip not setting count and/or reply_len properly

I don't think there were any other errors with the newer kernel, and I don't remember the other errors from the older kernel.

I looked through the lite-on faq and did somethings like make sure cables were tight (but sata click together anyway), and what not.
The drive isn't loud when I rip or play music.

The only other things I can think of that I read are changing sata cables, or trying it on windows xp (I have it installed on an older hd, but it doesn't like achi.... what a pain).

This is really irritating me. I only noticed it a while back when I thought I would give the new computer a good test, and to re-encode my music to better quality for my new ipod.
Suggestions please?

I ordered them from Newegg so I could still return them and order different ones. Although I don't have the box for one of the drives think it would be fine.

~jnengland77

Update:
I thought of another question. Is an SATA dvd burner considered a SCSI device? If so should I be setting in Grip the Generic SCSI device which is under Config -> Rip to what though? sr0 doesn't work. There are 4 /dev/sg*? sg2 and sg3 are in the optical group. I would imagine sr0 to sr1 and sr1 to sr2?

Last edited by jnengland77 (2007-07-21 22:33:45)

jnengland77 · 2007-07-23 20:47:30

bump

jnengland77 · 2007-07-27 22:05:06

Still not one suggestion or bit of help?

I tried Paranoia 10 Pre1 and it got rid of most of the sg errors in dmesg, but still clicks sometimes. I tried switching cables, and that didn't help so it must not be the cables..

Any other suggestions? Please help... If you need more information or something just say I just want to know what I should do next to test this or if It might be another problem.

Any help or suggestion would be helpful.

thanks,
jnengland77

rayjgu3 · 2007-07-28 11:07:32

ok ill give a response
it may be module related
on my laptop "qsi cdrw/dvd sbw-242" when i burn audio cds they play fine in standalone cd player but i cannot jump tracks
it plays 1st track with proper display but then 1st track ends 2nd begins & the disply starts counting down from 10:00 >9:59>9:58 ..... down to 00:00 then restarts 10:00 back down .
i can FF>> or RW<< but no quick |> jumping of tracks so far it hasnt mattered which distro i use
i dont use my laptop for burning audio much so i never did try to figure it out

although when arch started offered different initrd setups ie: /dev/hda could be /dev/sda or /dev/hda > /dev/sr0 i setup my home box to go new way & found same problem so i switched it back

dont know if this is any relation to your issue other than as i said module related
id like to know the answer if you find 1
good luck

Arch Linux

#1 2007-07-21 21:54:51

Sata dvd burner and audio tracks (clicks)

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