On Nov 19, Hugo wrote:
> 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.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Esp. since the same machine could play audio
CD's under 5.2...
> 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...
Right, and the fact that it did work before...
> Is it set up as secondary master, not primary slave?
Alone on the secondary controller. I can't remember if it's jumpered as a
master or if there are no jumpers on it (or *is* that how you jumper it as the
master?).
> Is the /dev/cdrom link
> set correctly?
Yep.
> 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....
I will double-check that tonight, but I've checked the link.
I have a small partition with a fresh 6.1 install on it (my testbed), maybe I
should try to see if that will play -- just to make sure I didn't miss
something on my custom kernel...
-Michael
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