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zephyrus17

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Registered: 2008-06-15

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(solved) grip (and I) can't find the cdrom drive

I have my audio cd inserted and playing through Exaile, but I want to rip it using grip. Problem is, it won't recognise the location of the cdrom. Sound-juicer finds the cdrom just fine, but I can't rip from Sound-Juicer because none of the output formats are available (another problem for another day).

Googling and common sense says it's /media/cd, but nothings in there. /dev/cd/cdrom- doesn't work as well. What do I do?

Last edited by zephyrus17 (2009-05-04 06:53:48)

brisbin33

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From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

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Re: (solved) grip (and I) can't find the cdrom drive

try /dev/sr0?

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Maskawanian

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Registered: 2009-01-06

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Re: (solved) grip (and I) can't find the cdrom drive

First:

ls /dev | grep sr

This will print your optical drives. If nothing shows your optical drive is not detected.

mount | grep /dev/sr

If this shows nothing likely the optical drive is not mounted. Try mount /dev/sr(watever the above showed). This will only work if the drive is in fstab. If you mount with HAL you can try explicitly mounting it.

skottish

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Re: (solved) grip (and I) can't find the cdrom drive

Audio CDs don't mount, this is why nothing is showing up. On my system a symlink is created from /dev/cdrom (grip's default) to /dev/cd/cdrom-0:0:0:0, which is the correct device. grip finds it automatically on my machine and I have no reference to any optical device in fstab.

zephyrus17

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Registered: 2008-06-15

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Re: (solved) grip (and I) can't find the cdrom drive

I redirected grip to /dev/sr0 and it worked. So thanks for all the help