Comment 47 for bug 397906

This is low-level stuff (via dmesg):

[ 128.310018] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
[ 128.461960] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 128.468977] scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 128.470933] usb-storage: device found at 4
[ 128.470935] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 133.470197] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 133.472184] scsi 7:0:0:0: CD-ROM PLEXTOR DVDR PX-708A2 1.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[ 133.495063] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 133.495198] sr 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
[ 133.495274] sr 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 5
[ 179.397754] sr 7:0:0:0: [sr1] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 179.397761] sr 7:0:0:0: [sr1] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
[ 179.397766] Info fld=0x0
[ 179.397768] sr 7:0:0:0: [sr1] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
[ 179.397775] end_request: I/O error, dev sr1, sector 0
[ 179.397780] Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 0
[ 179.397783] Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 1
[ 179.397788] Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 2
[ 179.397791] Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 3
[ 179.397794] Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 4
[ 179.397797] Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 5
[ 179.397799] Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 6
[ 179.397802] Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 7
[ 179.397805] Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 8
[ 179.397808] Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 9
[ 179.399749] sr 7:0:0:0: [sr1] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 179.399753] sr 7:0:0:0: [sr1] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
[ 179.399757] Info fld=0x3c
[ 179.399759] sr 7:0:0:0: [sr1] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
[ 179.399765] end_request: I/O error, dev sr1, sector 240
[ 179.403749] sr 7:0:0:0: [sr1] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 179.403753] sr 7:0:0:0: [sr1] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
[ 179.403757] Info fld=0x0
[ 179.403759] sr 7:0:0:0: [sr1] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
[ 179.403764] end_request: I/O error, dev sr1, sector 0
[ 179.444367] sr 7:0:0:0: [sr1] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 179.444373] sr 7:0:0:0: [sr1] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
[ 179.444385] Info fld=0x0
[ 179.444385] sr 7:0:0:0: [sr1] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
[ 179.444391] end_request: I/O error, dev sr1, sector 0
[ 179.454759] sr 7:0:0:0: [sr1] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 179.454766] sr 7:0:0:0: [sr1] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
[ 179.454771] Info fld=0x0
[ 179.454773] sr 7:0:0:0: [sr1] Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
[ 179.454780] end_request: I/O error, dev sr1, sector 0
curtis@eurydice:~/Desktop$ uname -a
Linux eurydice 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 04:38:19 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The audio CD inserted reads perfectly well on my Vista partition on this box.