Copying CDs with graveman

[Mark Panen]

On 4/13/05, joelbryan <joelbryanster at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wish they have better names than that, graveman sounds morbid. 
> 
>  
> 
> On 4/13/05, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> > I've been playing around with graveman on my Hoary system. I started off
> > with only a single CD-ROM drive and decided to add a second drive so
> > that I could easily copy CDs. I especially want to copy audio CDs.
> > 
> > The second drive is /dev/hdb and is a 52x Samsung CD-ROM drive, dated
> > 2001!
> > 
> > My writeable drive is a Sony DVD+RW new drive on /dev/hda.
> > 
> > graveman detectd these drives correctly, however, when I ask it to copy 
> > a CD from hdb to hda, it asks me to load a CD in the Samsung drive. I
> > load the CD and, if it's audio, it starts playing, but graveman never
> > detects that the CD has ben loaded. Similarly for data CDs.
> > 
> > If I set the source drive to be the Sony on hda, then graveman does 
> > detect the loading of CDs into that drive. graveman then gives an error
> > when it attempts to read the audio CD, but that's another problem.
> > 
> > So has anyone done this successfully with a similar combination of
> > drives? Do I need a newer CD-ROM drive on hdb? Any ideas?
> > 
> > TIA
> > 
> > Tony.

What does "cdrecord -scanbus" say, i am having the exact same problem
on a Mandrake machine but when i try with a Live CD all works, so i
don't think it's a hardware problem, most probeblly something to do
with udev in my case.