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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: xcdplayer, is there a port for FreeBSD?
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References: <BRIAN.93Nov12135602@sun1.claremont.com> <CGK9Iw.MCE@tfs.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 22:44:59 GMT
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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?
>>Has anyone already ported xcdplayer?
>
>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).
>

Well, I have a toshiba 3401 cdrom and xcdplayer works great with it.


Amancio

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