[SOLVED] Grip Fails to Find CD Drive in Ubuntu 12.04

julianvb · 05-22-2014, 05:26 PM

grip fails to find the CD drive regardless of what /dev name I use, such as /dev/cdrom1 or /dev/sr1 via the Config tab. My Ubuntu 12.04 computer has a CD drive and a DVD drive.

Any advice will be appreciated.

Julianvb

rokytnji · 05-22-2014, 07:42 PM

Code:

$ dmesg | grep "sr0"
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0

Note: your drive might be called sr1 or sr2 if you have several; in that case replace sr0 with sr1 in that case (or simply sr to catch them all).

Code:

$ dmesg | grep "sr" 
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5

and since Mint is based on Ubuntu. A rant of sorts

http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic...26124&p=689288

Me:

Code:

$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="7"
VERSION="7 (wheezy)"
ID=debian
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"
HOME_URL="http://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.debian.org/support/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.debian.org/"

rokytnji · 05-22-2014, 07:44 PM

Oh yeah

Code:

$ cat /etc/fstab
# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
UUID=6011bbe8-33ac-450c-a316-2a4c3d87d960 / auto defaults,noatime 1 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
UUID=bf00fd58-e1c6-45cb-8846-dc65256c8790 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0

julianvb · 05-23-2014, 02:32 AM

Hi, Everyone,

Thanks very much for your help. lshw confirms that my CD drive's logical names are /dev/cdrom1 and /dev/sr1. Tonight grip suddenly worked for me whether I chose /dev/cdrom1 or /dev/sr1 in the Config tab. Each time after I selected the tracks and clicked Rip Only, grip ripped several song CDs rather fast. But once in a while the old problem of it failing to detect an inserted CD popped up again. I suspect that this might be a system problem.

At least I now know grip works and that's good enough for me.

Julianvbi