Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 19:49:32 -0500 (EST) From: Mark turpin <mturpin@shadow.spel.com> To: Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com> Cc: Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does DVD emulate CDROM? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981204194425.13393A-100000@shadow.spel.com> In-Reply-To: <19981204160539.A79347@znh.org>
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On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Zach Heilig wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 01:29:49PM -0500, Dan Janowski wrote: > > I understand that FreeBSD does not support DVD functionality, > > but can it deal with a DVD as a CDROM without a problem? > > Specifically I am looking at laptops and the good ones > > now come with DVDs only. > > I'm pretty sure I saw a message from JKH offering hardware to anyone who > can fix DVD compatibility (some Creative Labs hardware). > > I have a couple questions as well: > > Do SCSI DVD players automatically work? I could see a problem with playing > DVD movies, but perhaps not reading data. Is that what's meant about a > 'cdrom' emulation mode? I don't think that you can read the data off a DVD. DVDs use a different file format (UDF) than cds. There is some info on UDF at http://www.osta.org I don't see any problem with reading CDs. Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Turpin | Consulting - Training - Network Installation Systems Engineer | Main Street Technology Centre | http://www.MainStreetTech.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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