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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: xcdplayer, is there a port for FreeBSD?
Date: 16 Nov 1993 14:39:49 +0100
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In article <1993Nov16.035552.24896@serval.net.wsu.edu>, msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith) writes:
|> In article <CGK9Iw.MCE@tfs.com> julian@TFS.COM (Julian Elischer) writes:
|> >In article <BRIAN.93Nov12135602@sun1.claremont.com>,
|> >Brian Childs <brian@sun1.claremont.com> wrote:
|> >>I downloaded xcdplayer-386bsd-Dec92 from agate, and tried to port it to
|> >>FreeBSD, but it seems that any IOCTL sent to the device fails.
|> >>Does the scsi driver for FreeBSD support playing audio cd's?
|> >The audio commands in the cdrom driver are only valid for COMPLETELY CONFORMING
|> >SCSI-2 cdroms. This excludes most of the NEC range (for example).
|> Does the Toshiba XM3401 CD-ROM conform to the SCSI-2 spec enough to
|> work?

The Tosh works fine for my hacked-up xcdplayer2.2, and I sent some diffs to
jkh so I suppose the stuff will eventually end up somewhere sensible.

Bernard