CD access Ubuntu 8.04 / vmware player / Visduh

[Eric Shubert]

Yeah, thanks. I'm simply trying to rip an audio CD with Windoze media 
player. It's baffling though why data CDs work and audio CDs don't.

Stephen wrote:
> well you can sidestep and rip to ISO or some other application and
> then feed that data to vista
> 
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Eric Shubert<ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
>> Eric Shubert wrote:
>>> Eric Shubert wrote:
>>>> I have a Ubuntu 8.04 host, running a Visduh guest using vmware player
>>>> 2.5.1. It's working pretty well, but I don't really use Visduh much.
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to use the Windoze media player to rip a CD, accessing the
>>>> CDrom directly. The Vista VM is connected to the /dev/scd0 device, but
>>>> when I insert the CD, Ubuntu delightfully and magically puts the Audio
>>>> CD icon on my desktop, and launches the Sound Juicer. Ubuntu takes
>>>> possession of the CD device, and Visduh waits for access.
>>>>
>>>> I can't seem to figure out how to get Ubuntu to release the device so
>>>> that VMware/Visduh can access it. Once I eject the disc from Ubuntu,
>>>> Visduh stops waiting for the device. When Ubuntu has access to the CDrom
>>>> device, there's no entry in /etc/mtab, so the device isn't mounted by
>>>> conventional means.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone fill me in on where to look to find out what Ubuntu's using
>>>> to access the CDrom, and how I can get it to release (umount?) the da*m
>>>> thing without ejecting it?
>>>>
>>>> TIA.
>>>>
>>> To disable:
>>> # hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0
>>> This allows the VM guest to access/control the device directly.
>>>
>>> To re-enable:
>>> # hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0 --enable-polling
>>>
>>> Kind of a screwy command if you ask me.
>>>
>>> FWIW, does anyone know of a gnome way to turn device polling off/on?
>> That helps, but still no dice.
>>
>> Visduh (running under VMware Player 2.5.2) accesses a (commercial) data
>> disk flawlessly, regardless of hal polling (on the Ubuntu host) being
>> enabled or not. I suppose that's because Ubuntu doesn't know what to do
>> with it, so it does nothing with/to it.
>>
>> I'm unable to access a (commercial) audio CD though. I tried stopping
>> hal on the Ubuntu host, and that made things worse, as Visduh would
>> hang. With hal running and polling disabled, Visduh acts as though
>> there's nothing in the drive.
>>
>> /var/log/messages gives this hint (repeatedly) when trying to recognize
>> the audio CD:
>>
>> Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.761485] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Device
>> not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready [current]
>> Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.761496] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Device
>> not ready: Add. Sense: No reference position found
>> Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.761506] end_request: I/O error,
>> dev sr0, sector 0
>> Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.761508] printk: 93 messages
>> suppressed.
>> Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.766526] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Device
>> not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready [current]
>> Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.766535] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Device
>> not ready: Add. Sense: No reference position found
>> Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.766541] end_request: I/O error,
>> dev sr0, sector 0
>>
>> I've tried various audio CDs with the same result.
>>
>> Anyone have an idea? I've googled and found this error in other
>> situations, but none so far with VMware player (which works fine with
>> data, just not with audio CDs).
>>
>> --
>> -Eric 'shubes'
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