Re: Old cdrom.

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Tim Meads wrote:

> I am trying to rip audio tracks off a CD.  The cdrom is good, but its
> old. Really old.
> 
> thunder root # cdparanoia -v 1-2
> cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001)
> (C) 2001 Monty <[email protected]> and Xiphophorus
> 
> Report bugs to [email protected]
> http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/
> 
> Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom...
>         Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface
>                 CDROM sensed: ATAPI compatible CD-916E/ATK
> 
> 
> Verifying drive can read CDDA...
> 
>         Unable to read any data; drive probably not CDDA capable.
> 006: Could not read any data from drive
> 
> Cdparanoia could not find a way to read audio from this drive.
> thunder root #
> 
> 
> Thats the output i get, ive compield in scsi emulation, but it dosnt
> appear to make a difference, any ideas?

I think you need to compile the code for "non-ATA drives" or some such.
It's been years since I did it, but there is code, at least in 2.4
kernels, for some OLD CD hardware. You have to look for it, unfortunately.

-- 
bill davidsen <[email protected]>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.