From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 21 9:17:11 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C5F837B401 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 09:17:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from raven.plab.ku.dk (raven.plab.ku.dk [130.225.107.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5193843FBD for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 09:17:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dk@raven.plab.ku.dk) Received: from raven.plab.ku.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by raven.plab.ku.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2LHH5A2000644 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:17:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from dk@raven.plab.ku.dk) Received: (from dk@localhost) by raven.plab.ku.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h2LHH5Cb000641; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:17:05 +0100 (CET) Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Keywords: 2001334874 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: VCD disks From: Dmitry Karasik Date: 21 Mar 2003 18:17:05 +0100 Message-ID: <844r5wljvy.fsf@raven.plab.ku.dk> Lines: 31 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I was greatly surprized by the fact that atapi-cd doesn't recognize VCD disks. I didn't find any solution to that but the patch from http://people.freebsd.org/~luoqi/ , and am wondering what were the reasons that it was not included into the kernel? I do not want the question to sound like a "why not", not even because the code change is safe and minimal, but because there is no other way to read a VCD without patching and recompiling kernel. What I have on my 4.7-STABLE: $ dd if=/dev/[r]acd0[c,a] of=/dev/null bs=[2048,2352,whatever] dd: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument It is not even a question about mounting the device, which although works via -t cd9660 -s 0 but leaves the files inaccessible; it is about inability to read a perfectly valid medium. Any comments? -- Sincerely, Dmitry --- www.karasik.eu.org --- Life ain't fair, but the root password helps. - BOFH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message