On Tue, 11 May 2004 14:45:44 -0500 John Thompson <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > cdparanoia has been giving me problems since upgrading to FC1. Prior > to this, I had been able to rip cd audio with a simple "cdparanoia -B" > command; now when I try this I get: > > $ cdparanoia -B > cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001) > (C) 2001 Monty <monty@xxxxxxxx> and Xiphophorus > > Report bugs to paranoia@xxxxxxxx > http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ > > /dev/cdrom exists but isn't accessible. By default, > cdparanoia stops searching for an accessible drive here. > Consider using -sv to force a more complete autosense > of the machine. > > More information about /dev/cdrom: > Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom... > Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface > /dev/scd1 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM. > Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface > No generic SCSI device found to match CDROM device > /dev/scd1 [yada, yada, yada] It turns out to have been a permissions problem after all. But rather than the /dev/scd* devices, it was the /dev/sg* devices that needed to be changed. chmod-ed the devices and edited /etc/security/console.perms to reflect the new permissions and all is well. -- -John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
