From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 4 13:55:45 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10370 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 13:55:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.rdc1.ab.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com [24.64.2.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10363 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 13:55:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from listaccount@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.65.122.172]) by mail.rdc1.ab.home.com (InterMail v4.0 201-221-107) with ESMTP id <19990104215517.IWYF10325.mail.rdc1.ab.home.com@home.com>; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 13:55:17 -0800 Message-ID: <369138E3.2B6DD618@home.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 15:55:47 -0600 From: "Ryan Thompson [LAM]" Reply-To: ryant@home.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Ason , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD support DVD's ? References: <002301be3764$c7cb4f80$a76456d1@dgason> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Dave Ason wrote: > > Hi there, > > I am getting ready to put together a new system. I'd like to run > FreeBSD and Win98 on it... > Does FreeBSD support DVD drives? If so, which ones? > > Thanks, Dave > dgason@mindspring.com Hi Dave. I own a Creative PC-DVD Dxr2 drive (the second generation 2x DVD, 24x CD-rom drive). It functions perfectly as an ATAPI CD-ROM under any release of FreeBSD I have tried (2.2.x and 3.0). That is, ISO9660 or audio discs work very well. As fas as DVD discs are concerned (i.e. movies), I'm not aware of any driver/software support for the decoder card under FreeBSD (or any UNIX/Linux flavour, for that matter). Creative certainly doesn't release X Windows versions of their movie player anyway. :) So... To answer your question as best as I can... ANY DVD-ROM (and, likely, even the new DVD-RAM) drives should function at least as CD-ROM drives under FreeBSD, so long as it sticks with a standard interface (IDE/SCSI) and I/O methods. If you plan on running Win98, however, you will certainly have no problem playing all DVDs (games/movies/other multimedia) under Win98, and using the drive as a basic CD-ROM under FreeBSD. Hope that helps at least a little bit :) Ryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message