[Paranoia] Old cdrom.

[Monty]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 03:01:09PM -0600, Tim Meads wrote:
> I am trying to rip audio tracks off a CD.  The cdrom is good, but its
> old. Really old.
> 
> thunder root # cdparanoia -v 1-2
> cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001)
> (C) 2001 Monty <monty at xiph.org> and Xiphophorus
> 
> Report bugs to paranoia at xiph.org
> http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/
> 
> Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom...
>         Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface
>                 CDROM sensed: ATAPI compatible CD-916E/ATK
> 
> 
> Verifying drive can read CDDA...
> 
>         Unable to read any data; drive probably not CDDA capable.
> 006: Could not read any data from drive
> 
> Cdparanoia could not find a way to read audio from this drive.
> thunder root #
> 
> 
> Thats the output i get, ive compield in scsi emulation, but it dosnt
> appear to make a difference, any ideas?

You compiled it in, but it's not active because the ATAPI interface takes precedence.  Either disable the ATAPI cdrom interface, or add 

append=" hdc=ide-scsi"

(assuming the real device name of the ide cdrom is hdc; /dev/cdrom is
a link) to your boot loader's boot-time command line.

Monty