[Sderby] Playing music from CDRW

[Gordon Mitchell]

Thanks,

Changed the link and reboot, music now playing from cdrw.

Gordon

David Bottrill wrote:

> Gordon,
> 
> SuSE will have enabled SCSI emulation in order to get the CDRW to work, it is probably now appearing as /dev/sr0 rather than /dev/hdc
> 
> what you probably need to do is delete /dev/cdrom and make a new symlink to it from /dev/sr0
> 
> i.e.
> 
> ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom
> 
> You need to bee root to do this.
> 
> David

> 
> 
>>From: Gordon Mitchell <G.Mitchell@ftel.co.uk>
>>Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 20:44:11 +0100
>>To: sderby <sderby@mailman.lug.org.uk>
>>Subject: [Sderby] Playing music from CDRW
>>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Following a Hard disk failure and system rebuild, I have now moved to 
>>Suse 8. During the system rebuild I removed my old and slow cdrom which 
>>was the secondary ide master and replaced it with my cdrw.
>>
>>Unfortunately I cannot get applications like xmms to play music cd's 
>>from the cdrw. It is recognised by cdrecord --scanbus and reported as 
>>0,0,0, also cdparanoia finds the music tracks when I point it to /dev/scd0.
>>
>>Do i need to create a link in /dev to get xmms to read music cd's from 
>>the cdrw?
>>
>>I can mount and read data cd's using the cdrw but getting music cd's to 
>>play has foxed me.  I have tried searching google and various news 
>>groups but have not found anything useful yet.
>>
>>Finally I cannot make the next meeting as I my employer has temporarily 
>>put me on shifts until christmas, :-( , I was looking forward to getting 
>>  a look at smoothwall and some background on networking. A well maybe 
>>another time.
>>
>>Gordon
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Gordon Mitchell, PDS Engineer                  mailto:gm@ftel.co.uk
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