Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 18:25:33 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: sos@freebsd.dk (Soren Schmidt) Cc: i.think@harrisburgacademy.org (i think), npp@swamp.dk (Nicolai Petri), multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DVD Support!!! Message-ID: <199910270025.SAA04265@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <199910262011.WAA87172@freebsd.dk> from Soren Schmidt at "Oct 26, 1999 10:11:00 pm"
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Soren Schmidt wrote... > It seems i think wrote: > > there was a recent mention of DVD in freebsd-current mailing list. basically > > having to do w/ the authentication of DVD drives. > > Well, the ata driver findes and probes DVD drives just fine, you can use > them as well, but there is no UDF filesystem in FreeBSD (yet), and there > is no special ioctl's for dealing with DVD specific things.. Likewise, the SCSI CD driver can deal with read-only DVDs just fine. Dealing with rewriteable DVD's is a little different, and requires write support in the CD driver. (It has been done, but needs a little more thought/time before it goes in the tree.) > As the author & maintainer of the ata driver I have some interest in > this, and will follow things on the side, eventually bringing in > support as needed.. Whatever we do, we should try to make sure we have a common set of ioctls between the ATAPI and SCSI CD drivers. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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