FC3 Audio CD Problems

[Jesse Jarzynka]

    That's strange that your cdrom is hda, why not your hard drive? 
Perhaps that was the cause?  -Jesse

David Mangani wrote:

> David Mangani wrote:
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>> Jesse Jarzynka wrote:
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>>> I had this when I first installed it I think, but after installing 
>>> apt from freshrpms and doing upgrades it seems to have fixed it. The 
>>> only thing I still notice is I can't add cd audio tracks to xmms. 
>>> There is no longer /mnt/cdrom etc, but there is /media where the 
>>> cdrom(s) sit. Even when trying to add them that way though it 
>>> doesn't seem to work.
>>>
>>> Something I've noticed though is Core 3 restarts easy, but doesn't 
>>> seem to want to shut down. It gets to "ACPI Power Off" called and 
>>> then hangs. Anyone else? -Jesse
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 17:28, David Mangani wrote:
>>>
>>>>/Hi all. I am having a problem. My cdrom drive works fine with data cd's 
>>>>but will not play audio cd/s at all. I get an error
>>>>
>>>>> /dev/hda: Input/output error
>>>>> mount: /dev/hda: can't read superblock
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>This is a brand new problem since installing FC3. I also tried as root 
>>>>user with no luck. I read in another forum that some people have had 
>>>>trouble with this issue so I tried it just to see. It seems I have this 
>>>>issue as well. I haven't seen a solution, although one poster made a 
>>>>passing reference to this and that is was easily solved. Unfortunately 
>>>>he was replying to a previous post with lots of questions and he only 
>>>>just touched on some of the issues. Any one run into this or know what 
>>>>could be wrong? FYI, the cd's are good, they play fine in another player.
>>>>
>>>>Thx
>>>>
>>>>Dave
>>>>
>>>>/
>>>>
>> Thanks for the reply. I also use apt/synaptic, do you recall what you 
>> upgraded when the problem went away? This seems like such a basic 
>> functionality issue, hard to see how this could have slipped through. 
>> I did see something regarding the power down issue. I haven't tried 
>> it yet though. The poster in one of the fedora forums said the 
>> problem went away after he disabled <not sure> the power saving 
>> feature in his bios. Could be a struggle between the OS and the bios. 
>> My 2 cents.
>>
>> Dave
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>> P.S. I also can NOT telinit to runlevel 3 from runlevel 5. It begins 
>> to kill X then simply hangs. The only way I can get to runlevel 3 is 
>> to edit my initab file and reboot. weird. This held me up for a while 
>> when I was installing the Nvidia drivers. So far to me anyways, FC3 
>> seems kind of buggy.
>>
> I found the original post on Fedora forums. If anyone else has the 
> cdrom issue, try this. It worked for me.
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> ln -s /dev/hda /dev/cdrom
> chmod +rw /dev/cdrom
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> ( on my computer hda is the cdrom, replace this as necessary)
> I now have nice cd music again. Maybe this will help someone else.
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> Dave
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