CD-Rom Drive Not Mounting

[Giles Orr]

2008/8/12 Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:19:13PM -0400, Stephen wrote:
>> More progress. Data CDs are read just fine.
>>
>> file -s /dev/scd0
>>
>> cannot deal with audio disks, but it can deal with DVDs. It identifies
>> them as UDF and reads the DVD label.
>>
>> I am trying to use a program "Sound Juicer" to rip music to the hard
>> drive. This program reports that it cannot
>> find any CD-ROM drives.
>>
>> I created a root account and tried from there with the same result, so I
>> don't think it is a permission issue.
>>
>> Google shows a number of people reporting this problem, but I can't find
>> a solution.
>>
>> When I insert an audio CD in my desktop Ubuntu system, an icon appears
>> on the desktop. It does not on the PS3.
>>
>> Any further thoughts?
>
> Well maybe the optical drive driver for the PS3 doesn't support raw
> access to audio.  If lots of people have that problem, that might be it.
>
> Could try with cdparanoia directly.

Another possibility is that Sound Juicer expects to find /dev/cdrom
and when it doesn't find that link it gets confused.  I've never used
Sound Juicer but I've definitely had this same problem with other
CD-ripping programs: usually all that's required is to either edit the
Sound Juicer config (either through its GUI or the right dotfile) or
just create a soft link from /dev/scd0 to /dev/cdrom .  The latter is
probably a good idea anyway.

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