Re: [Hampshire] Optical drive not recognising Audio Cds

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Author: Mark Johnson
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Optical drive not recognising Audio Cds
On Monday 29 December 2008 15:22:29 Mark Johnson wrote:
> I'm having trouble reading audio CDs (both pressed and burned) with my
> optical drive. It reads data CDs and all types of DVDs fine, but when I
> insert an audio CD, nothing happens. This appears in dmesg:
>
> [12659.538392] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
> [12659.538396] Buffer I/O error on device sr0,

loghttp://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/ical block 1
> [12659.538402] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 2
> [12659.538404] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 3
> [12659.538406] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 4
> [12659.538411] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 5
> [12659.538413] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 6
> [12659.538415] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 7
> [12659.539820] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
> [12659.539822] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
> [12659.541179] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 4
> [12659.541182] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1
>
> and when I try to mount manually, I get this response:
> mark@trogdor:~$ sudo mount /dev/cdrom
> mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0,
>        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so

>
> The line for the device in fstab is as follows:
> /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0

>
> Any suggestions what's up here? Im running Kubuntu Intrepid.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark


Hmm ignore that, it appears I'm being dense. I tried telling Kaffiene to play a
CD that I'd inserted, and it's working fine. I just expected it to appear like
a removable device upon insertion.

Mark