-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I installed cdparanoia-3a9.7-2 with dselect, then tried to run it in query mode:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cdparanoia -vsQ cdparanoia III release 9.7 (December 13, 1999) (C) 1999 Monty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Xiphophorus Report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom... Could not stat /dev/cdrom: No such file or directory A quick check of /dev shows that, indeed, there is no cdrom device. A quick check of dmesg shows that my kernel *does* know about the internal SCSI CD-ROM: scsi0 : 53C94 scsi : 1 host. Vendor: QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL ST3.2S Rev: 0F0C Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD-ROM CR-8005 Rev: 2.0d Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 scsi : detected 2 SCSI generics 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total. Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 A quick symlink of /dev/cdrom to /dev/sr0 later: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cdparanoia -vsQ cdparanoia III release 9.7 (December 13, 1999) (C) 1999 Monty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Xiphophorus Report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom... Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface /dev/sr0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM. Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface No generic SCSI device found to match CDROM device /dev/sr0 Hmm. Listing the whole of the /dev directory turns up devices scd0 through scd16 that are owned by group "cdrom". Symlinking /dev/cdrom to /dev/scd0 produces the same results as for /dev/sr0. I also tried /dev/scd1 and /dev/scd3, but both gave the error "Could not access device /dev/scd[13]: No such device". Looking further through /dev, it turns out that sr0 is a symlink to scd0. Okay, that makes sense. Further perusal of the copious output generated by "cdparanoia -vsQ" suggests that there may be hope for devices sg0 through sg16. After some trial and error, I discover that if I (1) symlink /dev/cdrom to /dev/sg1, (2) chgrp /dev/sg1 to "cdrom", and (3) chmod /dev/sg1 to "g+rw", I can get cdparanoia to acknowledge my CD-ROM and recognize an audio CD. Is there a better way to have done this? A safer way? (The sg* devices were originally chowned root.root, with access mode 600.) Should /dev/cdrom, and whichever device to which it is supposed to point, have been set up automatically when I installed? If so, who do I notify? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBOwnZYhNvDO+i/75BEQKW4gCg8wwNf5SXhwLk7lVAq2IKPEAwAQUAnRCE Lkm3mIYdQhEu/oLcVirgKQC3 =1ziL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Craig S. Cottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available from: <http://pgp.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA2FFBE41> ID=0xA2FFBE41, fingerprint=6AA8 2E28 2404 8A95 B8FC 7EFC 136F 0CEF A2FF BE41