Re: Cannot play Audio Cds but Data cds fine...

[wayne@chilledout.worldonline.co.uk (Wayne)]

Hi,
Thanks very much for the help, it works fine now :)
<listening to cd and humming>

Regards
Wayne.

> It points to itself?  Humm
> OK, I think (?) what you have done is removed the old link you had
> pointing to your 'old' cdrom and put in a flakely one.
> 
> > 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 
> What does   ls -l /dev/cdrom show you? Not what you want, I would
> guess.  That fstab line isn'tc correct either.
> 
> Do this.  Assumeing you only have 1 CD now, the Ricoh, and it is  at
> /dev/scd0 ( cdrecord dev 1,0,0), get rig of the scd0 -> scd0 link and
> do
> ls -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom  (symlink cdron to point to scd0) 
> then a 
> ls -l /dev/cdrom should show you this
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root root   8 Jun 14 13:17 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0
> 
> Now your link is right.
> 
> I just added a cdrw drive but kept the cdrom in the box as well.  I
> decided to use them both under scsi emulation.  The cdrom is sdc0 and
> the reader is sdc1.  My links are
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root   root   8 Jun 14 13:17 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root   root   8 Jun 14 13:17 /dev/cdrw  -> /dev/scd1
> 
> In fstab they are
> /dev/scd0   /cdrom      iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto     0   0
> /dev/scd1   /cdrw       iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto     0   0
> 
> :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)
> 
> Wayne
> The name is Baud......, James Baud.
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