If the BIOS detects the CD-ROM drive & you can definitely mount data CDs
under Linux (and under DOS? ... have you tried booting from a Win98 boot
disk & access a data CD that way?) then it does sound like a software
problem. However, I've come across a few (old & broken) CD-ROM drives which
handle data CDs fine but cannot play music CDs. If your drive is
ATAPI-compliant, it's not _that_ old, so...
Is it set up as secondary master, not primary slave? Is the /dev/cdrom link
set correctly? It's possible your /etc/fstab associates /mnt/cdrom with
/dev/hdb (for example) but your /dev/cdrom is linked to /dev/hdc, in which
case your data CDs could still be mounted OK but your music CDs wouldn't
play. Maybe. ;) ...but you say the light comes on when you try to play a CD
using a Linux app, so..... hmmm....
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 10:50 AM
Subject: Playing audio CD's??
> Has anyone else had problems playing audio CD's in Red Hat 6.1? I've
tried
> several pieces of CD playing software (GUI and text-based), and they all
> behave the same.
>
> When they start up and try to access the drive, the drive lights flick on
for
> a second and then go off. The software reports that the drive is empty
(if it
> returns at all).
>
> I can mount data CD's just fine, no probems at all.
>
> I've checked for stderr errors and in /var/log/messages for some output,
but
> nothing shows up.
>
> It's an ATAPI drive, if that makes any difference, and it worked just fine
in
> 5.2. I removed the magicdev package, so that shouldn't be interfering
with
> anything...
>
> I would really appreciate any info anyone could give me on this, I'm at a
> standstill. I don't know for sure what I can do to get more detailed
output.
>
> Surely someone out there has audio CD's playing in their 6.1 system in an
> ATAPI drive... How about SCSI (that's the ext machine to upgrade, I hope
I
> don't have problems there)?
>
> RHL 6.1
> Kernel 2.2.12-20
>
> Thanks for any and all help!
--
To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe"
as the Subject.
