[paranoia] cdparanoia fails to open CD

[Richard Gellman]

>A 'feature' in recent (2.2.12+ and 2.3.x) Linux kernels requires a cdrom device
>to be opened O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK when accessing an audio disc.  I have 
>no clue
>why, but I'm sure the reason seemed good to whoever coded the interface.
>
>Anyway, you *must* use cdparanoia 9.6 or later for a recent kernel.  
> 9.7 is recommended.

That is not entirely true.
I have a Slackware 7.0 distro, with kernel 2.2.13. I used cdparanoia 8 (v. old) because it was the only version to hand at the time. I have the standard SCSI emulation for IDE drives set up, and the operation worked fine.

Ricky (ricky at rickynet.net)
www.rickynet.net

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