[paranoia] powerbook titanium cd...

[David Balazic]

"David N. Welton" wrote:
> 
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> 
> Hello, I've got a problem that I'm unable to sum up very clearly.  I
> recently got a mac titanium powerbook, which is quite a nice computer,
> however, I'm a bit confused as to how one goes about getting audio out
> of audio cd's, with linux.  Apparently, the drive is not cd audio
> capable:
> 
> @ashland [~] $ cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
> CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.12 2000/10/18
> .
> .
> .
> Can play audio:         0
> .
> .
> .
> 
> *However*, macosX seems to be able to do it.  Any ideas how?!

Reading the audio data and playing it through the sound card ?

In linux try using audiofs ( http://www.senko.net/audiofs/ ) or
cdfs ( http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/~ronsse/cdfs/ ).
Then all the CD tracks are accessible as WAVE files and you can play
them with every WAV player on earth.

> 
> Possibly relevant information:
> 
> Running Debian GNU/Linux with kernel 2.4.3, drive is recognized as:
> 
> hdc: MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8187, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> 
> I also get some funky errors/warnings like this:
> 
> hdc: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2
> Bogus interrupt -1 from PC = c00064d4
> hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, (U)DMA
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
> hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdc: packet command error: error=0x54
> ATAPI device hdc:
>   Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
>   Invalid command operation code -- (asc=0x20, ascq=0x00)
>   The failed "Play Audio MSF" packet command was:
>   "47 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
> 
> Thanks for any tips/suggestions/explanations,
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