Re: Cannot play Audio Cds but Data Cds are fine (used to work)
On 07/19/01 23:15:43 +0100, Wayne wrote:
> Hi,
> Can anyone help me with this problem:
> I have an IDE cdwriter (Ricoh mp7080a) and have succesfully recompiled the kernel with scsi emulation etc and can now burn cds. (great) BTW I am running Potato 2.2.19pre21. Before doing the above audio cds worked fine, now when I put one in to play, start up say GCD nothing happens at all.
> I seem to remember deleting /dev/cdrom and have tried recreating it as a symlink to scd0 but I have a feeling this is incorrect. The line looks like this:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 may 21 20:25 scd0 -> scd0
> I have added a line to my /etc/lilo.conf like this:
> append="hdc=ide-scsi"
> which is below the Linux Stanza.
> I altered the /etc/fstab file like this:
> hashed out existing /dev/cdrom line then added a line:
> /dev/scd0 /cdrom auto defaults,ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
> TIA
>
Hi Wayne,
Are you able to listen to audio CDs as root? I had that problem, and
what I ened up doing was changing the group for my device (/dev/hdb)
to the cdrom group. I then added myself to the cdrom group and was
able to play (and hear!) audio CDs as a normal user.
I don't think the fstab entries have much to do with it. I think they
just set you up so you can mount the drive easily, and I don't think
you need to mount audio CDs to play them.
I'm going to follow this thread closely, because I too have an IDE
burner that I haven't gotten around to setting up yet. What's said
here may help me dodge a bullet when I get ready to try. It's been too
easy to reboot into Windows, are burn a disc when I need to. However,
last weekend I reached the limit of my tolerance for the crashes and
yanked the Windows drive. ;^)
Good luck!
--
Mark Wagnon <mwagnon1@home.com>
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