On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:53:24 +0100, Stroller wrote:

> As it bloody well should be. An analogue cable is not fixing the  
> problem. It has for years been possible to play music from a CD-ROM  
> connected by only the EIDE cable.

Although some CD player software needs to be explicitly told to use this
method. But this isn't the problem anyway,because the OP also stated that
he cannot rip audio CDs, so it is a problem with reading the CDDA data
from the drive, not playing it.


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Neil Bothwick

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some
people have mediocrity thrust upon them.  - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"