Q: using XCDRoast w/ YDL 4.01?

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 15:51, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a little confused about using xcdroast on YDL 4.01 on a PowerMac G4  
> "Silver" with a self-compiled kernel 2.6.10.
> 
> Following the hints in the kernel sources, I dropped ide-scsi and  
> configured xcdroast to use /dev/hdc as reader and writer device, which in  
> turn loads the modules ide_cd and cdrom.
> 
> Problem 1: regular users can not access the device through xcdroast,  
> although the permissions are fine. Only root is able to see the device and  
> an inserted disk.

I don't have this problem.  On my system /dev/cdrom is a link pointing
to /dev/hda, which seems to be owned my me, although I don;t know why.

> 
> Problem 2: I insert a data cd, but xcdroast claims that the cd contains an  
> audio track. Trying to read the track anyway failes with cdda errors, and  
> xcdroast can not be canceled (maybe I didn't wait long enough, though).

I inserted a data CD and xcdroast claims that the CD contains an audio
track.  I have a sense of humor.  I instructed xcdrecord to create an
image in the /tmp directory, which it did:


 ls -l /tmp/track*
-rw-rw-r--  1 jsacco jsacco       472 Mar 18 16:18 /tmp/track-01.inf
-rw-rw-r--  1 jsacco jsacco 713213468 Mar 18 16:27 /tmp/track-01.wav
-rw-rw-r--  1 jsacco jsacco       309 Mar 18 16:18 /tmp/track-01.xinf
-rw-rw-r--  1 jsacco jsacco       321 Mar 18 16:27 /tmp/track.toc


Hmmm...  A big wav file. [right!!!...]

I then instructed xcdrecord to burn the image onto a blank CD. 

OK... Is the newly burned CD mountable???  Not likely

        mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
        /dev/cdrom: Input/output error
        mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting
        read-only
        /dev/cdrom: Input/output errormount: 
        /dev/cdrom: can't read superblock


Why is that???  See

	http://www.xcdroast.org/

> 
> Problem 3: I insert an audio cd, but reading the audio tracks still  
> failes. It *is* possible to read the audio tracks directly using  
> cdparanoia from the command line, though.
> 
> What works:
> - I can burn cd's from audio tracks read using cdparanoia;
> - I can master and burn data tracks. However, although the data track is  
> shown as a data track (with a cd icon) in the hard disk temp folder, when  
> I read the cd it's again an audio track.
> 
> I am using the following rpm's:
> xcdroast-0.98a15-6.yd4.1
> cdrecord-2.01.1-0.yd4.1
> cdrdao-1.1.9-4.FC.1
> cdda2wav-2.01.1-0.yd4.1
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> TIA, Albrecht.
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