Re: [Hampshire] Optical drive not recognising Audio Cds

2008/12/29 Mark Johnson <mark@???>:
> 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, logical 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

You cannot mount audio CDs. They do not have data sectors on them.
They have only audio sectors on them.
You can only play them with a media player like xine or any other
media player that works with CD.

For CD or DVD writing, try using k3b.

Kind Regards

James