[rescue] Grr, audio on a new CD-RW

Shawn Wallbridge shawn at synack-hosting.com
Mon Oct 21 20:09:46 CDT 2002


> I just bought a new Philips CD-RW (CDRW 2400) to replace the old
> philips drive that died over the weekend.  I never got around to moving
> the old CD-RW drive over to linux, but I figured I'd start the new one
> out on linux, since the linux machine seems more trustworthy.
>
> So, after much work, I have it burning CDs in xcdroast.  I'd miscopied
> a line in the lilo.conf file turning on scsi emulation was most of the
> problem. I also can mount existing CDs, and the CDs I burn work in
> another
> machine.
>
> But, for the life of me, I can't get this drive to read audio CDs.  Is
> there something non-obvious that people have been forgetting to tell me
> about?  Can anyone help?  Using an additional normal CD-Rom for audio
> isn't an option because this machine won't fit anymore CD-ROM sized
> drives due to an annoying conflict between the case design and the
> motherboard (grr).
>
> --
> Joshua D. Boyd

You do have the (normally) grey thin round cable going from the CD to the
Soundcard right?

shawn



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