MJ Ray wrote:
Sorry if this has been asked, but is there a link between the CD drive and your sound card? With IDE drives, you need a cable, but I don't know if SCSI ones do, as I only read software from them.
Also, can you please trim quoted messages and reply beneath? There are enough people on the list that the transfer saving is very useful, not to mention the time of others in the discussion.
Aye, there is a cable, and my drive isn't SCSI. Anyway, I've found the solution by doing a whole bunch of web site queries. Here are my findings.
If a CD drive is emulated as SCSI, then the audio channel isn't available, you can only read data tracks, and rip audio tracks. If this is a genuine case, why? If I get time, I may trawl through the SCSI emulation code in the kernel and find a workaround.
The solution is for me to comiple SCSI code and IDE code as modules, they won't co-exist together if compiled into the kernel. I can then have my cd burner as SCSI and my other CD drive as IDE so I can both burn and play music.
Damn silly way of doing things if you ask me, but I've spoken to a few people, and they all agree that cd drives are SCSI emulated, they can not play audio. Maybe if I get my butt around to it and write a patch, I'll be famous for 5 minutes.
As to the other issue, it's no problem. Each "list" has it's own etiquette, now I'm familiar with this list's etiquett...etc.etc and so on and so forth.