Re: [Hampshire] Optical drive not recognising Audio Cds

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Author: Tim
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Optical drive not recognising Audio Cds
On Monday 29 December 2008 20:28:15 Chris Dennis wrote:
> Mark Johnson wrote:
> > 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
>
> I don't think it's just you being dense (unless I'm being dense too).
> I've been seeing the same error messages since 'upgrading' to Ubuntu
> Intrepid. I suspect it's something to do with Intrepid being clever and
> trying to do some sort of automounting on the CD, which fails on audio
> CDs (although Kaffeine, grip etc. still work).
>
> I still can't write CDs or DVDs in Intrepid either -- I'll look into it
> after the festivities have died down.
>
> cheers
>
> Chris
> --
> Chris Dennis                                  cgdennis@???
> Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK



While I don't use Ubuntu so I can't comment on the error message, but I to
have fallen foul of trying to mount an audio cd.............

Tim