[Solved]abcde no cdrom found

re-mind · 2017-10-18 10:29:07

Hi all

I have recently come to love flac and therefore I would like to rip some old cd's. I bought an external cd-drive and downloaded abcde and flac. When running abcd i get the following error:

[ERROR] abcde: CDROM has not been defined or cannot be found

I looked at the arch wiki and found that I needed to add my user to optical and load the sr_mod, which I have done. However, I still get the same error. In /dev/ there is neither "srX" or "cdrom". lsblk reveals nothing.

What am I missing?

Thanks

Last edited by re-mind (2017-10-18 12:10:52)

V1del · 2017-10-18 10:44:28

Post a dmesg immediately after connecting the drive, usually neither adding your user to optical nor loading sr_mod manually should be necessary for a device to be detected and usable.

re-mind · 2017-10-18 11:44:42

Well.. When I reboot the drive is not mounted. I tried pulling the cable and reattaching it again and now the cdrom is recognized. dmesg reveals that the cd-drive is recoqnized. Weird

V1del · 2017-10-18 11:55:07

Audio CDs don't have filesystems they aren't mounted and it isn't surprising that lsblk didn't print anything. Maybe the device has problems properly requesting power if it is already plugged in? Or have you not rebooted the system after an update that included the kernel? You should always do that, because all modules are replaced on kernel update, so you have to reboot to load new models after an update involving the kernel.

If this is solved for you, please mark it as such by editing your initial post's title

re-mind · 2017-10-18 12:10:26

V1del wrote:

Audio CDs don't have filesystems they aren't mounted and it isn't surprising that lsblk didn't print anything. Maybe the device has problems properly requesting power if it is already plugged in? Or have you not rebooted the system after an update that included the kernel? You should always do that, because all modules are replaced on kernel update, so you have to reboot to load new models after an update involving the kernel.
If this is solved for you, please mark it as such by editing your initial post's title

Yes, I am aware that I can't mount the audio cd. Thats not the point I didn't know that lsblk wouldn't print info about the cdrom. However, after a cold boot abcde now recognizes the cd. So I hope my problem is solved. Moreover the sr0 does show up in lsblk.

sr0     11:0    1   627M  0 rom

I'll mark this question as solved. Thanks for all your help

Last edited by re-mind (2017-10-18 12:12:02)

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[Solved]abcde no cdrom found

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