[techtalk] Using CD-Rom drives with linux.

[Tania M. Morell]

Hi all!  Happy Holidays!

I'm having a huge problem getting both my IDE Creative Labs CD drive
-and- my SCSI Plextor CD-RW drive working under Mandrake 7.2 ..

FIRST PROBLEM:
How can I mount a IDE cdrom drive with an audio cd in it?  Apparently
iso9660 is not audio??

[root at caladan tmorell]# mount /dev/cdrom
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
       or too many mounted file systems
[root at caladan tmorell]#        



SECOND PROBLEM:
I'm trying to use XCDRoast but it won't read anything from my Plextor
CD-RW (It won't read from my IDE CD-Rom either but I think that's just
not supported under XCDRoast)

I set everything up, and click on "Duplicate CD" and then "Read CD". 
After it finishes the index scan, I get "Error reading data track 1/1"
or "Error reading audio track 1/12" depending on whether in insert a
data cd or audio cd in the drive.  This drive is 12/4/32  and is
'supposed' to read audio cd's at 20x.  I've set the speed at 20x, 8x,
4x, 1x.... and nothing works.

I've already scoured everything I could find about XCDRoast including
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html  
and   http://www.xcdroast.org/  and can't find why it won't work..   
What is the "Audio Read Speed" and "Sectors for overlap sampling"
setting in xcdroast? They were automatically set to 0 and 75
respectively but don't know if I should change that.

I have the lastest firmware installed (v1.06), the drive is being
acknowleged by linux and Xcdroast can see the tracks on it, it just
can't read them.  

Is there a different buring software out there which is considered
'better'?  I really don't know any others...   



pleeeeeeeaaaase help!!  I am at my wits end.  =(



-T