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From: pmh@pilhuhn.de (Patrick M.Hausen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: CD-ROM - anyone successfully using xcdplayer/workman?
Date: 21 Sep 1994 20:16:05 +0200
Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn
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Message-ID: <35pt95$e3u@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org>
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Hello everyone!
After I built my new System I tried to play audio CDs with an SCSI
CDROM.
I tried an Apple CD300e+ and an Sony CDU561 with comparable results.
Xcdplayer just doesn't work when there is no CD in the drive. Even if
I insert one afterwards, it won't recognize the disc. If I start it after
inserting a disc, everything works fine except ejecting the disk via
software, but the eject button on the drive is locked until xcdplayer
terminates. So to play discs - insert disc - start program - terminate
program - change disc - start program ... no fun.
Starting xcdplayer from the olwm root menu doesn't work, too. It works
only when started from a shell.
Workman behaves similarly. It only doesn't give that much error messages\
and it does recognize discs inserted after program start.
It won't eject the disc, either.
Xcdplayer and that Apple CDROM once crashed my system, I wasn't able
to reproduce that effect, though.
I started the program and it told me, there was no disc in the drive
(correct) while printing an endless loop of "device not configured"
in my shell window. I then inserted a disc and clicked the play button.
This led to "ahb0(0,3,0) illegal request" on the system console and
more error messages in my shell. I then clicked the play, stop and
eject buttons for a while until I quit the program.
Then I inserted a data disc, tried to mount it and ...
" cd0a - io error" was the last thing I could read - the system then
simply rebooted.
So ... are there any known bugs in these two applications. Is there a known
bug in one of the drivers (I can't imagine how to do a reboot from inside
an application without an os bug).
I'm running FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 and compiled the programs from the 1.1 CDROM's
ports directory.
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