Cannot rip with *actual* SCSI CD-ROM drives

Shahms E. King shahms at shahms.com
Fri May 21 14:15:53 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 02:52, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 04:59:50PM -0700, Shahms E. King wrote:
> > Even with the sg module loaded, the drives aren't seen by it. It must be
> > possible to rip from these drives, but I certainly can't figure out how
> 
> That is a known bug in the FC2 kernel in part. A bogus change hiding devices
> with other dev files from sg got in. The preferred device to rip from
> however is the /dev/sr device of the CD now, but that does need a new enough
> set of cd tools. Or just build a generic 2.6.6. kernel or wait for errata

Good to know, thanks.  I filed a bug in bugzilla about this as well.
Also, there are no /dev/sr? entries without udev (and then they're only
in /udev).  I'm also assuming the cd tools shipped with Fedora aren't
"new enough" because even using the /udev/sr0 entry I get the same
problems.
-- 
--Shahms





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