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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.enteract.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!hammer.uoregon.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!usenet.ee.pdx.edu!sirius.cs.pdx.edu!daver From: daver@sirius.cs.pdx.edu (Dave Roethig) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: xcdplayer for ATAPI Drve?? Date: 18 Feb 1997 17:28:36 GMT Organization: Portland State University, Portland, OR Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5ecos4$9dj@walt.ee.pdx.edu> References: <5eacso$auo@walt.ee.pdx.edu> <hgace5.ir1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.cs.pdx.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35824 Conrad Sabatier (conrads@neosoft.com) wrote: : In article <5eacso$auo@walt.ee.pdx.edu>, : daver@sirius.cs.pdx.edu (Dave Roethig) writes: : > : > I am using FreeBSD 2.1.0 with a ATAPI CD drive. : > I compiled xcdplayer from the ports dist. but I am : > having trouble running it. : > : > I call it with "xcdplayer -device /dev/wcd0c", : > It opens a window and then displays errors: : > : > ioctl(cdromreadtocentry): Invalid argument : > ioctl(cdromreadtocentry): Invalid argument : > cdrom_get_curtime: error from cdrom_open : > : > : > : > What's wrong?? : It has to do with the ioctl mechanism in the ATAPI driver. Certain calls : that work with "standard" CD-ROMs fail. Someone posted a patch here : recently for the wcd driver that "translates" certain calls into something : the device can handle. I'll see if I can find my copy and either post it : again or mail it to you. Remind me, if I don't get back to you soon : enough. : -- : Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads