Re: So, tell me again why we can't read audio CDs in SCSI drives?

[Kenneth D. Merry]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 20:28:40 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > I think what is actually going on is that it doesn't like the 0x82 density
> > code that most other drives use.  So that's what the first error message
> > likely tells us.  (the density is given in the mode select parameter list,
> > thus the invalid field)
> > 
> > The second error message likely means that it needs a mode select of some
> > sort in order to function.
> 
> Hmmm.  That's another reasonable explanation for the behavior, yes. :)
> I'll try playing with different density codes, perhaps.

I think it's a 1 byte field, so you've got 256 possibilities.  It may take
a while.  Another possibility is that this is a MMC compliant CD-R drive.
cdda2wav can apparantly handle MMC drives.

>From the spec, MMC drives use a different read command that includes an
"expected sector type", which you can set to CD-DA.

Anyway, verbose output from cdda2wav might help me figure out whether that
is indeed the case.

Ken
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