Re: Playing Audio CD's

I've sorted it out now :)

Thanks to everyone who gave me advice.

I was using KsCD, but in the configuration screen, the CD device was set to 
/dev/cdrom
I only have the writer in my machine which is /dec/cdrecorder, SuSE must have 
assumed that I had a CDRom device too so it must have set 
up the CDrom apps to use /dev/cdrom instead of /dev/cdrecorder

/dev/cdrecorder is a link to /dev/sr0 
/dev/cdrom was a link to /dev/hdc

After I got KsCD working by changing the device I was using, I altered the 
/dev/cdrom link to point to the cdrecorder.

Now everything can see the CD and play audio happily 

Thanks

Jason



> Jason,
> Your CD-Writer is being identified as a SCSI device using ide-scsi
> emulation so XCD-Roast will recognize it properly.  This makes CD music
> players choke for some reason and they don't see the device.  I guess
> they are looking for an IDE CDROM instead of a SCSI device.  The
> difference is /dev/hdc versus /dev/sdc0 in the /dev directory.  The
> kernel uses special designations for each file in the /dev directory to
> identify hardware.  These designations are called major and minor device
> numbers.  Suffice to say, for some reason, if you need to emulate SCSI
> with the ide-scsi module for burning CDs or DVDs then the player
> programs usually won't work right.  I am sure there is a workaround but
> I don't know it yet.  The ide-scsi module is usually invoked at boot
> using the /etc/lilo.conf file to configure LILO to boot with the
> appended parameter.
> Dow
>
> Jason Farmer wrote:
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >This might sound silly, But I can't play Audio CDs with my CD Writer. But
> > I can mount the drive and read data from it.
> >
> >This only happened when I installed SuSE 8.0, My 7.1 worked fine with
> > Audio CDs.
> >
> >Windows can play them no problem so it's not a hardware issue.
> >
> >When I attempt to play a CD using anything it says Disk ejected.
> >When I attempt to mount the drive, it says:
> >
> >/dev/cdrecorder: Input/output error
> >mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified
> >
> >The contents of my FSTab file is:
> >
> >/dev/hdb3	/	reiserfs	defaults 1 2
> >/dev/hdb1	/boot	ext2	defaults 1 2
> >/dev/cdrecorder	/media/cdrecorder	auto	ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
> >/dev/hdc	/media/ls120	vfat	noauto,user 0 0
> >devpts	/dev/pts	devpts	defaults 0 0
> >proc	/proc	proc	defaults 0 0
> >usbdevfs	/proc/bus/usb	usbdevfs	noauto 0 0
> >/dev/hda1	/windows/C	vfat	noauto,user 0 0
> >/dev/hdb2	swap	swap	pri=42 0 0
> >
> >Does anyone have any ideas?
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> >
> >Jason