Re: cannot mount cdrom! - a clue

[Roy Pluschke <rjplus@shaw.ca>]

On May 22, 2005 00:27, Aaron Maxwell wrote:
> On Saturday 21 May 2005 11:36 am, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> > Audio CDs don't usually have an ISO9660 filesystem on them.
>
> Ah.  I get it now.  I was confused about the actual problem here.
>
> The issue is that I cannot access audio cds on my cdrom drive.  I'd like
> to rip the music stored on this Groove Armada disc, and/or play it
> directly from the drive.  I usually use xmms to play music and grip for
> ripping.  I have not succeeded at making either of them access the
> music cd. xmms does not give much feedback.  Grip provides a popup
> message: "Error: Unable to initialize [/dev/cdrom]".  (/dev/cdrom is
> indeed a symlink to /dev/hdc on my system.)
>
> In the past I have been able to easily access this drive with both of
> those applications, on an older system.  I built a new system and just
> pulled this drive out of the old one.
>

Since it works as root you probably haven't added yourself to the group 
"cdrom"

Hope this helps,
Roy