Re: CD-ripping under 2.3.x

Jens Axboe (axboe@image.dk)
Mon, 20 Sep 1999 22:54:16 +0200

On Mon, Sep 20 1999, Oystein Viggen wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm not able to rip audio-cds under any recent 2.3-kernel.
>
> This happens both when I use a cd-ripper program and when i try to dd
> directly from /dev/hdc (my IDE cdrom drive). The error message i
> recieve is: "Unable to open /dev/hdc: Wrong medium type"
>
> I am sorry if this is a known error (or if I'm doing something
> obviously wrong :), but it seems to me that this is an error that
> should be fixed.

Try 2.3.18 + the newest ac patch, then it should work fine.

> Normal playing of audio-cd's work perfectly, but as this is done
> mainly (fully?) in hardware, it would probably be quite hard to
> break...

You never get to the hardware in the above scenario - and you
can probably quite easily find cd players that break as well
with plain 2.3.18.

-- 
*  Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
*  Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
*  http://www.kernel.dk


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