[Techtalk] Clueless Ripping Revisited--Hardware ?s

Beth Johnson linux.chick at verizon.net
Wed Oct 16 19:06:07 EST 2002


On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 16:55, Conor Daly wrote:

> Ah! Looks like you've chmoded the wrong devices.  IME, cdparanoia uses the
> "generic" scsi devices "/dev/sg*" rather than the CD scsis devices
> "/dev/scd*". I guess you need to look at /dev/sg0 for the permissions
> thing...

Woo hoo!  That did it!  I didn't realize that the same device could be
seen as two different devices by the kernel.  Pretty nifty.

> Do ya want my mp3-catalogue[0] script?  It searches out and catalogues mp3
> files in and below the current directory and makes index files that xmms
> can use.

> [0] It's a European version but there's an American conversion command for
> it.  Lemme see, Oh yes: "mv mp3-catalogue mp3-catalog".

Yes, I'm interested.  I can take either version, I'm bilingual--American
and Queen's English...;-)

Thanks,
Beth
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