From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Oct 22 13:51:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.66.1.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AF6D37B401 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 13:51:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9MKpIJ42539; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:51:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:51:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200110222051.f9MKpIJ42539@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preferred device for ogle DVD is /dev/racd0c ? In-Reply-To: <20011022123215.A24036@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-multimedia User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.4-RELEASE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brooks Davis 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 -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message