FC3 Audio CD Problems

[David Mangani]

Jesse Jarzynka wrote:

>    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:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> ln -s /dev/hda /dev/cdrom
>> chmod +rw /dev/cdrom
>>
>> ( on my computer hda is the cdrom, replace this as necessary)
>> I now have nice cd music again. Maybe this will help someone else.
>>
>> Dave
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I know.... This is a home built PC. I have 2 optical drives and 2 hard 
drives. The drive order is simply the result of a rats nest of ribbon 
cables I'm also using cables that border on being to short( I'm to cheap 
to buy longer ones LOL ). It had always been detected and worked out of 
the box before, So..... I never really bothered with it.

Dave