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Date:      Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:51:18 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Preferred device for ogle DVD is /dev/racd0c ?
Message-ID:  <200110222051.f9MKpIJ42539@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <20011022123215.A24036@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
 > > Why? My DVD-player is at /dev/cd0c. So I'd prefer /dev/dvd.
 > 
 > Because acd0c will work for the most people out of the box. ATAPI DVD
 > drives outnumber SCSI ones by at least 10:1 and probably more like
 > 100:1 if not 1000:1. I'd rather limit the number of people who are
 > inconvenienced then make the inconvenience equal.

It would be very nice to have a fallback mechanism, so that
it would try /dev/cd0c if /dev/acd0c returns "device not
configured", and maybe even /dev/acd1c (a lot of people
seem to have a CD-ROM drive _and_ a DVD-ROM drive).
But I guess that's asking for too much ...

Well, it's probably best to let the default be /dev/acd0c
which seems to be the most common one by far.  As long as
you can change the default via command line option, so you
can share the binary between machines with different types
of drives, I'm happy with anything.  :-)

Just my 0.02 Euro.

Regards
   Oliver

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