Happening to me too on a Dell Inspiron 9400 - kio_audiocd uses close to 100% cpu and never does anything useful. cdparanoia seems to work OK. Kubuntu 6.06 with all updates to 12 Dec 2006.
While I get the sg_write kernel messages (from both cdparanoia and kio_audiocd), it looks like there is a memory leak in kio_audiocd that is the real problem. 'top' shows the %MEM constantly increasing and strace of the kio_audiocd process shows... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ strace -p 7037 Process 7037 attached - interrupt to quit brk(0x126a3000) = 0x126a3000 brk(0x126c4000) = 0x126c4000 brk(0x126e5000) = 0x126e5000 brk(0x12706000) = 0x12706000 brk(0x12727000) = 0x12727000 brk(0x12748000) = 0x12748000 brk(0x12769000) = 0x12769000 brk(0x1278a000) = 0x1278a000 brk(0x127ab000) = 0x127ab000 brk(0x127cc000) = 0x127cc000 brk(0x127ed000) = 0x127ed000 brk(0x1280e000) = 0x1280e000 ... and so on. The drive is... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cdparanoia -Qv Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom... Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface /dev/scd0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM. Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface generic device: /dev/sg1 ioctl device: /dev/scd0 Found an accessible SCSI CDROM drive. Looking at revision of the SG interface in use... SG interface version 3.5.33; OK. CDROM model sensed sensed: _NEC DVD+-RW ND-6650A 102C Checking for SCSI emulation... Drive is ATAPI (using SCSI host adaptor emulation) Couldn't disable kernel command translation layer Checking for MMC style command set... Drive is MMC style DMA scatter/gather table entries: 128 table entry size: 32768 bytes maximum theoretical transfer: 1783 sectors Setting default read size to 13 sectors (30576 bytes). Verifying CDDA command set... Expected command set reads OK. -- kio_audiocd eats up CPU instead of displaying CD contents https://launchpad.net/bugs/48731 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs