> Simple: you DON'T ever mount an audio cd. All audio programs You can mount the Audio CD using CDFS, which can be found at http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/~ronsse/cdfs/ . -Gabi > -----Original Message----- > From: Jean-Louis Debert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 2:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Eating Crow with mandrake 7.2 beta and sound > issues > > > Abe wrote: > > > > Ah thank you. That fixed everything except that users > cannot play CDs. Users > > can only mount the cdrom drive if it has a data cd in it. > Weird huh? When a > > user attempts to mount a music cd in teh drive you get an > error that says > > "Could not determine the file system type and none was specified." > > Input/Output error. This does not happen with root. > > > > I don't get it and I am waaaaay to sleep y to try right > now. Thanks again. > > > > Abe > > Simple: you DON'T ever mount an audio cd. All audio programs > that I know of, simply use directly the DEVICE (usually /dev/cdrom) > without mounting anything. > In fact the mount command requires a file system. To push the analogy > a little further, you can read (or write) to a "raw" hard disk > partition > (e.g. /dev/hda1) but you cannot mount it unless it is properly > formatted > with some file system known by Linux. > > Note: the above is just an example, DON'T try to write to "raw" > /dev/hda1, > the write would work but would likely destroy your existing partition > ... > > > -- > Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 74 Annemasse France > old Linux fan > >
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