[mythtv-users] Trouble with CD Drive

[Torsten Schenkel]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 00:00, srose at summit-software.com wrote:

> Everything seems to be working, except for MythMusic... if a music CD is placed 
> in the drive, it is recognized on the Music List, but when you select it and go 
> to the Play screen the tracks showup properly, but will not play.
> 
> The log file contains the following :
> 
> Oct 20 14:44:06 mythtv kernel:   The failed "Read CD" packet command was: 
> Oct 20 14:44:06 mythtv kernel:   "be 04 00 02 69 26 00 00 01 f8 00 00 "
> Oct 20 14:44:06 mythtv kernel: hdd: packet command error: status=0x51 { 
> DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Oct 20 14:44:06 mythtv kernel: hdd: packet command error: error=0x50
> Oct 20 14:44:06 mythtv kernel: ATAPI device hdd:
> Oct 20 14:44:06 mythtv kernel:   Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
> Oct 20 14:44:06 mythtv kernel:   Invalid field in command packet -- (asc=0x24, 
> ascq=0x00)
> 
> The CD plays fine on ksCD...

Hi,

there are basically two ways to play an audio CD:

1. Tell the drive to play track # as audio-cd. This drive will do D/A
conversion in the drive itself and send audio as analogue through the
audio connector on the soundcard.

2. Read the cdda-data in binary form. This is like ripping a CD, only
the trackfile isn't written to the disk but directly to /dev/dsp. D/A is
done in software or on the soundcard.

MythMusic used the 2nd possibility. The above error states that your
drive can't read the data. If KsCD is using 1. you won't be able to
compare the results.

Not all drives are able to read digital cdda data. Probably your's is
not. Can you read a data-CD with dd?

Sometimes using ide-scsi will help.

What drive are you using?

Torsten