Re: ripping tracks from a audio-cd

[florian <csshsh@structbench.com>]

On Die, 2003-01-28 at 22:44, Michel Lanners wrote:
> On  28 Jan, this message from florian echoed through cyberspace:
> > when i do this:
> > cdparanoia -B -- "-3"
> > 
> > i get this:
> > 
> > /dev/cdrom exists but isn't accessible.  By default,
> > cdparanoia stops searching for an accessible drive here.
> > Consider using -sv to force a more complete autosense
> > of the machine.
> >  
> > More information about /dev/cdrom:
> > 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
> >                 No generic SCSI device found to match CDROM device
> > /dev/scd0
> 
> SCSI emulation for the CD, right? The above error message indicates that
> you either have no SCSI-generic support in your kernel (sg devices), or
> that you don't have access to them.

yup. its scsi emulation. i got support for scsi-generic in the kernel
though. im wondering though why it works perfectly for data cdroms. i
can mount them any everything.. 

and on another side: why doesnt it even work as root then?

thanks alot in advance!

ciao!
florian