Can't remember what changes I must have made (if any) to make this happen but audio CDs have ceased to function.

Can't use audiocd:/ in konqueror and k3b fails on an error 255.

Here is my fstab:

/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda6 /mnt/storage vfat auto,rw,umask=000 1 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat auto,rw,umask=000 1 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cd-rw iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

I'm on Slackware 10.0 with the 2.6.7 kernel from the testing section of the CD installed correctly.
K3b 0.11.16
KDE 3.2.3
Qt 3.3.2
cdrtools-2.01-i486-1pcx.tgz from www DOT linuxpackages DOT net

Kscd and such work but k3b fails reading from my ATAPI-IDE MATSHITA DVD-ROM SR-8586 on /dev/hdc

I can get about 50% through track 1 on a cd-copy where it freezes and cannot even be cancelled.

I CAN however rip the tracks and do an audio CD project (but KAudioCreator pauses for ling periods on certain tracks and one CD takes up to 30mins to rip to wav) so the problem lies with my /dev/hdc.

I have used this same device flawlessly on Mandrake 9.2 and 10.0 final so I'm completely stumped.

Thanks in advance.

have you something like this in your bootloader config :

hdd=ide-cd

also try to look at dmesg

I used to have:

append="hdc=ide-scsi"

but now I have removed it since I thought it wasn't required for 2.6.x kernels.

Also, didn't know what I was looking for in dmesg but I was wasting time waiting for Yoper2.1 to downlaod and on their site I saw dmesg |grep -i cd which seems more applicable (to my pretty little head anyway) so here's the output:

hdc: MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8586, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW DRIVE SW-248B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache, UDMA(33)
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 10, io base 0000e880
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#2)
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: irq 10, io base 0000ec00
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64
eth0: register usbnet at usb-0000:00:07.3-2, CDC Ethernet Device
cdrom: dropping to single frame dma

Hope this helps my coaster [abundance] problem

Try this command to copy an audio cd to see :

put an audio cd in cdrom
put a blank cd in cdrw, then :
( you can type all in one line, just remove the \ )

cdrdao copy --device "ATA:1,1,0" \
--source-driver "generic-mmc-raw" \
--source-device "ATA:1,0,0" \
--driver "generic-mmc-raw"