Subject: Re: Can't play audio CDs
Date: Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:20:43AM -0400
In reply to:Daniel Patrick Berdine
Quoting Daniel Patrick Berdine([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote:
>
> > > > I have an ATAPI CD-ROM drive (actually a Creative
> > > > Dxr2 DVD drive), which I can't get to play audio CDs
> > > > under debian.
> > <snip>
> > >
> > > ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
> > > and in
> > > /etc/fstab put
> > > /dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,auto 0 0
> > >
> > > Then mkdir /cdrom to put a cdrom dir in / Thay way
> > > you can just do mount /cdrom, when you need to.
> >
> > He asked about playing audio CDs. Your suggestion is helpful
> > for someone who needs to mount a *data* CD, but not an audio
> > CD. You don't mount them. You simply put them in and use
> > whatever cd-player app you prefer. At most, you may have to
> > tell it the name of the device, for example, /dev/hdc. Or to
> > make it easier, create the link to /dev/cdrom as you show. The
> > /etc/fstab entry isn't necessary.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but hdc will only be relavent if you have a SCSI
^^^ IDE asy you say below
> based system won't it?
Your wrong about that. As you say in your next sentence.
>If your system is IDE based, hda,hdb,hdc etc. will
> be devices on the IDE controlers. If you have a SCSI card separatly, you
> need to use something else (scr0? I don't know, I'v been trying to get
> this to work for a while now...)
Scsi drives are found at /dev/sd[a-z], Scsi CDrom at /dev/sr[0-9]
IDE emulated as scsi, for CDRW, CDROM drives, use /dev/scd[0-9]
What do you have that isn't working?
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