On Nov 19, Michael George wrote:
> 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
I've messed with this some more to see what other clues I could come up with.
I found that on a working Cartman system (SCSI devices), I can put a CD-ROM in
the tray and when I start xplaycd it will just show a single track and say
that it's data.
When I tried my ATAPI system, I put a data CD-ROM in the drive. I mounted it
(using autofs) just fine and read the data on the disk. Without even removing
the disk, I started xplaycd to see if it could at least see that it's a data
CD.
It did nothing. It acted the same as it does with audio CD's in there.
This tells me that there is something different in the way the filesystem will
access the device versus the way that the cd players access the device.
Anyone out there with any experience who can give some insight? Is there a
way to compile parts of the kernel to push debugging info into a /var/log file
for more information?
Thanks for any and all information!
-Michael
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