Can't access music CD's on 2 CD rom drives (Long post)

[Net Llama]

--- Harry G <harrycg at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Basic info:
> 
> Suse 7.3, ext3 file system
> 
> 2.4.10 kernel (Std. from Suse install)
> 
> 1 CD reader
> 
> 1 CD-R
> 
> Both using SCSI emulation
> 
> Reads data CD's no problem
> 
> When trying to run X-CDRoast, which has worked great for almost a
> year, 
> it 
> reads the CD, but won't write.  Same with KonCD.  KDE media player, 
> XMMS all 
> either lock up, or won't play.
> 
> Worked fine until that dang multiple power outage over a 4 hour period
> 
> (drained UPS battery, so it shut down hard, restarted later, at least
> 3 
> times. I guess ext3 isn't a cure all).  
> 
> When accessing the drives via the desktop icons, with a music CD, I
> get 
> the following error:
> 
> "Could not mount device.  The reported error was:  /dev/scd0: 
> Input/output 
> error mount: I could not determine the file system type, and none was 
> specified".
> 
> I know that music CD's are not "mountable", but I used to be able to 
> see the files this way.  Again, data CD's, no trouble at all.
> 
> When I run lsmod, I get:
> 
> 
> linux:/home/harrycg # lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> ppp_deflate            39488   0  (autoclean)
> bsd_comp                4032   0  (autoclean)
> ppp_async               6160   1  (autoclean)
> ppp_generic            15040   3  (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp 
> ppp_async]
> slhc                    4432   1  (autoclean) [ppp_generic]
> sg                     23328   0  (autoclean)
> snd-pcm-oss            18368   1  (autoclean)
> snd-pcm-plugin         14480   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-mixer-oss           4768   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-seq-midi            3280   0  (unused)
> snd-seq-midi-event      2800   0  [snd-seq-midi]
> snd-seq                39584   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event]
> snd-card-ens1370        1888   1
> snd-ens1370             7408   0  [snd-card-ens1370]
> snd-pcm                29184   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin 
> snd-ens1370]
> snd-timer               8336   0  [snd-seq snd-pcm]
> snd-rawmidi             9312   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1370]
> snd-seq-device          3744   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
> snd-ak4531-codec       14400   0  [snd-ens1370]
> snd-mixer              23488   0  [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1370 
> snd-ak4531-codec]
> snd                    31344   1  [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin 
> snd-mixer-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-card-ens1370
> 
> snd-ens1370 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device 
> snd-ak4531-codec snd-mixer]
> soundcore               3280   5  [snd]
> lp                      5248   0  (autoclean)
> ipv6                  124736  -1  (autoclean)
> 3c59x                  24864   1  (autoclean)
> ipt_REJECT              2784   1  (autoclean)
> ipt_LOG                 3152   1  (autoclean)
> iptable_nat            12656   0  (autoclean) (unused)
> ip_conntrack           12848   1  (autoclean) [iptable_nat]
> iptable_filter          1728   0  (autoclean) (unused)
> ip_tables              10496   6  [ipt_REJECT ipt_LOG iptable_nat 
> iptable_filter]
> epst                    9328   0
> parport_pc             19280   2  (autoclean)
> ppscsi                 11248   1  [epst]
> parport                22240   2  [lp parport_pc ppscsi]
> ext3                   61312   2
> jbd                    41504   2  [ext3]
> ide-scsi                7552   0

Holy sh!t.  Do you really need that many modules?

> Where do I go from here?

Run it from the command line and see what errors get generated.

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Lonni J. Friedman                     netllama at linux-sxs.org

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