Copying audio cds

Kerry Hoath kerry at gotss.net
Mon Apr 1 09:26:44 EST 2002


You also need scsi generic support loaded, cdparanoia
will send requests both to /dev/scd0 and /dev/sg0 so
also make sure you do
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV sg

Regards, Kerry.
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 09:44:45AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Hi Ann and all.
> Speaking of abcde, I am having another problem there as explained in the note
> below. I already sent this to debian but the only reply I got was somebody else
> who is having the same problem both on debian and redhat.
> Oh, also, when I try to use the -o switch with abcde (for mp3 output instead of
> ogg) I get this message (both as a user and as root):
> 
> abcde error:  id3v2 is not in your path.
> As you'll se below, I can run abcde (and cdparanoia where the actual problem
> seems to show up) just fine as root as long as I settle for ogg output or
> actually cdparanoia works fine and gives me a .wav output.
> 
> Inserted message from email to other list:
> 
> I now have both a cdrom and a cdrw on
> my machine. They are both ide/atapi but i
> am using scsi emulation; the cdrw is scd0 and the cdrom is scd1 (on hdc and hdd
> respectively). I have no
> problem accessing the cdrom or the cdrw as far as mounting or listening to audio
> cds. However, when I try to run abcde and/or cdparanoia I get errors about
> "unable to open cdrom". when I run cdparanoia with the -v option, the indication
> is
> Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom...
>         Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface
>                 /dev/scd1 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM.
>         Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface
>                 No generic SCSI device found to match CDROM device /dev/scd1
> 
> Yet when I run abcde and/or cdparanoia as root, there is no problem. I assume
> this is some kind of permissions problem, but I can't seem to find the source of
> it.
> /dev/cdrom is the symlink to /dev/scd1 and /dev/cdrecord is the symlink to
> /dev/scd0. I am also a member of the cdrom group. I didn't have any trouble with
> these programs before converting to scsi.
> Can anybody see what I need to change here?
> 
> 
> 
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