First I feel I am no geting consistent information. Have you been plugging disk in / out of your system while various test runs have been done ?
**Not before now, as far as optical drive, but I have just now put in a different, more modern disc drive (Blu Ray compatible) into the exterior container. (Device USBSTOR\CdRom&Ven_HL-DT-ST&Prod_BD-RE_.) No change in visible results, Command line still doesnt see it. I do occasionally switch other external drives, to backup something. **I had not seen this Micron entry before yesterday. I dont know what that is. Summarising the result of cdda2wav v2 & v3 supposed on same system and I assumed identical setup Code: cdda2wav V3 - Adminstrator 0,0,0 0) 'Multiple' 'Card Reader ' '1.00' Removable Disk 1,0,0 100) 'Seagate ' 'BUP BK ' '0304' Disk 2,0,0 200) 'Seagate ' 'Backup+ Desk ' '040B' Disk 3,0,0 300) 'Seagate ' 'Backup+ Desk ' '040B' Disk 4,0,0 400) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVD+-RW GHB0N ' 'A1C0' Removable CD-ROM 5,0,0 500) 'Seagate ' 'BUP Portable ' '1707' Disk cdda2wav v2 - from LMS running as Adminstrator 0,0,0 0) 'Multiple' 'Card Reader ' '1.00' Removable Disk 0,1,0 1) 'ST1000DM' '003-1ER162 ' 'CC45' Disk 0,4,0 4) 'ST315005' '41AS ' 'CC34' Disk 1,0,0 100) 'NVMe ' 'Micron 2200S NVM' '1030' Disk 15,0,0 1500) 'Seagate ' 'BUP Portable ' '1707' Disk 16,0,0 1600) 'Seagate ' 'BUP BK ' '0304' Disk 17,0,0 1700) 'Seagate ' 'Backup+ Desk ' '040B' Disk There is some commonality but there are extra drives such as Micron 22000S in one scan and not in another while the V2 has 17 "usb" controllers vs 5 with V3 - are there USB hubs or something being plugged in/out. **I might have added/subtracted a backup HD. I do this all the time. Has the hardware configuration changed while running tests ? There is no point in trying to identify a hardware issue if hardware is being changed. I have managed to get my system to see my USB CDrom drive and I think the fundamental issue is presence of other external USB mass storage devices and not s/w version or adminstrator privileges. cdda2wav V3 (from cdrfte) sort of works as is with CDplayer plugin (i.e. get table of ccontents, CD name, tracks) but I couldn't get it to play reliably - it may play one track and then stop - it seems to be stuck at Windows level. cdda2wav v2 played tracks etc OK from my external USB drive so I see no reason to change from cdda2wav. cdda2wav is a Linux application developed in 1998 when PCs CDROM drive were attached using either ATAPI or SCSI hardware interfaces. So 20 years later, we are using this same piece of software when the PC bus technology is now PCIe, SATA and USB 3.1 . The application uses cygwin to do Linux-Windows and other compatibility libraries to "map" USB onto SCSI as USB1 had similar functionality & topology. The compatibility is a translation and it is never a one-to-one match. It is further complicated by the fact that PC hardware has changed and now bus interface are usually layered within PC (i.e. USB2 ports feed into USB3.1 controllers) and also with Windows s/w (drives are mapped with a hidden layer of hierarchy). I think the following is the root of the problem. The result of this mess of multiple compatibility/mapping layers is that external USB drives are mapped into what cdda2wav sees as addresses such as 0,0,0 - Windows can handle multiple 0,0,0 devices as it has an internal additional level to separate them but cdda2av cannot. If you have multiple USB Mass storage devices attached to your system which want same address - you will bump up against the cdda2wav limitation. My initial feeling is the Device "'Multiple' 'Card Reader ' '1.00' Removable Disk" is taking the 0,0,0 that your external USB CDrom drive would like. I think you'll only be able to use an external USB CDrom drive if there are not other USB mass storage devices attached. **For years, this has been my typical setup. The obvious difference is that my optical disc drive is USB for the first time. If I need to remove my other disc drives in order for the optical drive to be seen, that wont work for me, unfortunately. Id just need to get used to relying on WavInput when I wish to stream a CD live. This theory can only be checked by you testing on your system running "cdda2wav -scanbus" many time with various USB devices combinations plugged in/out and seeing which devices hog the USB bus and result in other devices being hidden from cdda2wav (although visible to Windows 10) **Ill shut down LMA, remove my external drives excepting the optical drive, and let you know if that results in the optical drive being seen. (I should get reply within a half hour.) If it is then seen, at least well know the cause, and the solution, even if its one that wont work for me, personally. **Thanks again for your efforts! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bzlrbi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30606 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47288
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