Re: CD Automount problem

Patton Echols wrote:
I re-booted into
windows and was able to load the CD, it was a sony disk that auto runs
some kind of splash. I cancelled all the things it started and was
able to use a windows tool to extract.

"sony disk" reminds me of the root kit they installed on Windows,
hopefully it is not one of those CDs. Google for "sony rootkit" and you
will see what I mean.

I am clueless how I would use top to do
what I needed. It just kept refreshing and showing the running
processes, not the one(s) that had - for example -tied up my cd drive.

Probably you won't find out with top which process is the guilty one. Top
shows all processes running, but it doesn't tell you what each particular
process does. It could even be, that the process is no longer active but
it has locked the drive. If the drive is locked, try the eject command.

Question 2: Any thoughts on my specific problem? Even if I had killed
the process, I'm not sure the right way to manually mount a music cd or
what I should have done with this one.

You can't really mount an audio CD because it has no file system. Try to
use a program that extracts the songs from the CD. Possibly the sound
juicer program you mentioned is one of them (I don't know that program).
Just start the program from the menu or command line. Usually I use the
command line tool cdparanoia. Anyway, those programs don't necessarily
work. Some CDs are protected with heavy DRM, which makes it impossible to
extract. Those CDs sometimes come with a Windows program which lets you
extract a low grade version of the music, but with Linux you are probably
out of luck.


Nils

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