now I did it ..

[Mike Medai]

neil at jenandneil.com wrote:

>On Wednesday 16 March 2005 07:49 pm, you wrote:
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>>Looking through my devices, it seems to be listed under the SCSI area.
>>The Kernel version is 2.4 (as returned via the kernelversion command).
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>Just a guess, you're probably using an IDE CD-ROM drive with SCSI emulation.  
>Is this a burner too?  That's a common setup for burners especially.  That's 
>not a problem - just important to know for troubleshooting.  What does the 
>following command yield at a command prompt:
> ls -l /dev/cdrom
>At the end of the line, you should see something like:
>  "/dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0"
>That would confirm the SCSI emulation (or real SCSI, but if that were the 
>case, you'd probably know.). 
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>

Running the command results with:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 2005-03-15 17:59 /dev/cdrom 
-> sr0

And yes, you are correct in thinking that it is also a burner.

Plus trying out the uname command gives me .. 2.4.21-273-athlon (that 
was done just for grins.  <G>)



>>How can I easily verify this?  I've run the update(s) methods and
>>checked packages .. but can't readily determine how to verify that I
>>have everything needed.
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>Well, nothing would be using the disc except maybe the CD player.  KSCD 
>doesn't close when you "close" it.  It minimizes to the system tray as a 
>little CD icon.  Right click on that and Quit to make sure it's closed.  
>Other than that, nothing should be accessing the CD drive without being 
>obviously in front of you.
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>>Dropping a audio CD back into the drive, the icon again changes, and
>>using Konqueror to look at audiocd:/ I find this instead:
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>>An error occured while loading audiocd:/:
>>The file or directory / does not exist.
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>Here's my theory.  If you go to the Control Center, then to the Sound & 
>Multimedia section, and then the Audio CDs applet.  There's an option here to 
>"Determine device automatically" and it's probably set to /dev/cdrom.  
>Depending on the link above being correct, to /dev/scd0, or being an 
>alternate (and somewhat more common) /dev/hdd or /dev/hdc, this may be auto 
>detecting incorrectly.  
>
>Let's see what that link up there in the first part of my reply says and what 
>it says here and see what we can do.  Try setting this specifically 
>to /dev/scd0 and I think you may find luck there.  Test it by trying to visit 
>audiocd:/ link again.
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I tried various different changes there .. turning off autodetection, 
/dev/cdrom only, or sr0 only .. none of these worked.  Upon starting KDE 
(and the restarts just to see if that had any effect after changes) I 
see it doesn't recognize that there is a disk at all in the drive.  If I 
eject and close with a music disk in, the icon changes to reflect that 
there is a music cd in the drive, but I still cannot access it through 
Konqueror or the terminal.  Looking at /dev/sr0 with Konqueror shows 
that it is a "block device" which has me a bit stymied. Time to flip 
through the books again and see what that's about.  <sigh>

Mike