it was 4:30 am when I wrote that email. What I meant was that audio programs like xmms scan the disk, read its contents and then cannot actually play them for any user except root. I will look inot that program as I often burn cds of my music and it would be handy to be able to mount those disks. Thanks for the info! Abe >===== Original Message From Gabi Davar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== >> 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 >> >> Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
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