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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-RELEASE IDE CD-ROM problem
Date: 24 Mar 1997 14:02:12 -0800
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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References: <5gr11b$6eh$1@wn5.sci.kun.nl> <5grtus$d8r$1@wn5.sci.kun.nl> <5gsgre$rbe$1@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <5h46rp$ii7@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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In article <5h46rp$ii7@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>Philipp Mergenthaler <p@hadii609.hadiko.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
>> the manpage for workman says:
>> workman - play audio compact discs on a SCSI CD player
>> no wonder it doesn't work with an atapi drive.
>That's only since nobody ever changed the manpage. Workman does use
>the official API under FreeBSD (via ioctl's), so it is independent of
>the actual drive as long as the driver provides this interface (which
>you can see with cdcontrol(8)).
>So if workman doesn't work with the ATAPI drive, there's likely a bug
>somewhere.
FWIW, neither workman, xcd, nor xcdplayer worked for me with
2.1-stable until a month ago or so when Jordan merged in code from i
think 2.2 for the wcd driver. It works great with my 4x drive, but
has a bit of problems with my crappy 3+ year old 2x drive.
rone
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