Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 00:30:03 +0800 (WST) From: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM> To: Paul Traina <root@shockwave.com> Cc: Stefan Esser <se@zpr.uni-koeln.de>, Boris Staeblow <balu@reido.in-berlin.de>, current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI II CDROM fails to play Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951231002302.6208D-100000@jhome.DIALix.COM> In-Reply-To: <199512292348.PAA16944@precipice.shockwave.com>
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On Fri, 29 Dec 1995, Paul Traina wrote: > Since we're discussing CD's anyway, has anyone had luck getting the NEC CDR 210 > (Peter: aka the NEC CDR 53) to play audio CD's under FreeBSD? > > (bt0:4:0): "NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:210 1.0" type 5 removable SCSI 1 > > bash# cdplay cd0 > CD>tocentry > cdplay: Bad file descriptor > > cd0(bt0:4:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST csi:20,20,0,0 asc:20,0 Invalid command operation code > > This drive doesn't appear to be totally SCSI-II CCS compliant, however a number > of DOS programs have been capable of controlling it (as has W95). > > Curious, > > Paul I've just discovered that xmcd-1.4 can run in text mode without Motif. It has NEC CDR-210 support. It also has 'NEC Vendor Specific' scsi commands for the non-scsi-I/II compliant command set in their older drives. I'm "hopeful" that this might work for me, but I'm not sure. At least, it can be configured at a very fine grained level which commands to use... Fingers crossed... :-) -Peter
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