F11 and CD Failure

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 13:24 -0500, Mikkel wrote: 
> Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> > 
> > Note: /dev/cdrom does not work.  I tried this for both
> > of my CD CD/DVD drives and I note that the devices
> > respectively are: /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1
> > 
> > # mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /media/cd
> > mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist
> > 
> These are normally symlinks created by udev. You may have to delete
> the persistent CD rules file to have udev recreate the proper
> symlinks when you reboot. (Or did they get rid of the file when I
> was not looking?)
> 
> > But then again, on F9 (as I reported earlier), hal is able
> > to recognize both of my drives and to automount and
> > start the default audio CD application perfectly.
> > 
> > So - something is wrong with F11's device handlers...
> > or so I think.
> > 
> Audio CDs do NOT get mounted. They do not have a file system on
> them. What is supposed to happen is that HAL puts an icon on the
> desktop indicating that you have an audio CD in the drive. It will
> then launch the selected CD player/ripping program, launch a pop-up
> asking what to do, or do nothing more if that is what you have
> selected.
We had this argument before. This is not a hal problem buut a udev
problem. See solution iincluded in my Mounting CD messages posted today
for the third time. 
> 
> Instead of trying to mount the audio CD, try launching one of the CD
> player or ripping programs. Without the /dev/cdrom symlink, you will
> have to configure it to use /dev/sr0
> 
> Mikkel
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