CD access Ubuntu 8.04 / vmware player / Visduh

[Lisa Kachold]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:

> That's what I tried. After I've inserted it and have the icon on my
> desktop, I get:
>
> root at edwin:~# umount /dev/scd0
> umount: /dev/scd0: not mounted
> root at edwin:~#
>
> Yet the icon is on my desktop, and when I double click it, Nautilus open
> it.
>
> So what's controlling the device?
>
> It just occurred to me to do:
> root at edwin:~# ps -ef | grep scd0
> root      6521  6477  0 Jun14 ?        00:01:00 hald-addon-storage:
> polling /dev/scd0 (every 2 sec)
> root     15023 14855  0 17:34 pts/5    00:00:00 grep scd0
> root at edwin:~#
>
> Any idea what hald-addon-storage is?


That's the hardware abstraction layer device add on storage daemon.

It's safe to kill, BTW.

# kill -9 6521

remove device - enter device

# dmesg

# mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/CDROM (or whatever the directory is)
# mount

If you want to have it mount automagically, add it to /etc/fstab

Start back the hald-add-on-storage from the /etc/init.d/ directory.


>
>
>
> Lisa Kachold wrote:
> > Alternately run mount/umount after determining the device /dev/scd0
> > device idea and status via dmesg.
> >
> > So, you will umount it
> >
> > #umount /dev/scd0
> > or
> > # umount /mnt/CDROM  (or wherever she is mounted)
> >
> > then
> >
> > # mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/CDROM
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net
> > <mailto:ejs at shubes.net>> 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.
> >
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