Audio CDs not mounting

[Ed Greshko]

On 08/06/2011 05:44 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> I'm using F14 with XFCE.  Until recently, all went well.  Last week, I 
> tried mounting a new audio CD that I'd bought so that I could listen to 
> it.  Nothing happened.  I tried with another new CD, and an older CD 
> that I"d used before, with no change.  Checking /var/log/messages, I saw 
> this:
>
> Jul 28 14:07:21 khorlia kernel: [3792447.281593] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] 
> Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
> Jul 28 14:07:21 khorlia kernel: [3792447.281604] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense 
> Key : Illegal Request [current]
> Jul 28 14:07:21 khorlia kernel: [3792447.281615] Info fld=0x10
> Jul 28 14:07:21 khorlia kernel: [3792447.281619] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. 
> Sense: Illegal mode for this track
> Jul 28 14:07:21 khorlia kernel: [3792447.281632] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: 
> Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 02 00
> Jul 28 14:07:21 khorlia kernel: [3792447.281650] end_request: I/O error, 
> dev sr0, sector 64
>
> I posted this on the fedoraforum and got suggestions of hardware 
> problems.  Checking, I quickly learned that DVDs and data CDs mounted 
> correctly.  Alas, they've run out of suggestions.  Checking today, 
> there's been no change except that there are no longer any appropriate 
> messages in the log.  (No, rebooting is not an option.  I'm not nuking 
> 51 days of uptime Just Because somebody says "it can't hurt.")  Does 
> anybody have any idea what might be causing this?

FWIW, I have never seen or heard of an audio CD being mountable.  

It had been a long time since I actually did anything with a CD....  So
I plunked one in and got exactly the same messages.  And then I simply
played it with Sound Juicer.

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