CD ripping is broken on USB drives

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Mon May 10 15:08:47 UTC 2004


On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 08:05:14AM -0700, Jurgen Botz wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >But you don't need sg to rip from USB....
> >Yes I know I sound like a broken record.
> 
> Not quite... you do not repeat yourself, but you rhyme
> (apologies to Mark Twain).
> 
> Seriously, if you don't need sg to rip from USB, could
> you PLEASE enlighten us as to how it's done??? Even if
> I explicitly tell cdparanoia to used /dev/scd0 as both
> the cdrom device and generic device it still tries to
> open sg0...
> 
>   nova:/tmp$ cdparanoia -d /dev/scd0 -g /dev/scd0 1
>   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/
> 
>   Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively (Read-only file system).
>     retrying in 1 second.

this means something has /dev/scd0 open already, for example magicdev or
nautilus or ...

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