From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 20 18:20:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA27402 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 18:20:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA27394 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 18:20:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id CAA01175 ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 02:20:28 GMT To: rdmurphy@acs.bu.edu cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Playing audio CD In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:31:59 EST." <199603210131.UAA171296@acs4.bu.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 02:20:27 +0000 Message-ID: <1173.827374827@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk rdmurphy@acs.bu.edu wrote in message ID <199603210131.UAA171296@acs4.bu.edu>: > I have a question about playing an audio CD (through headphones) > on my CD-ROM drive. I've tried using a couple different programs > without success. Using "cdplay", I can access the drive, in the > sense that it lists the tracks, but it won't play the CD. When I > attempt to play it, the following message is generated: > cd0(ncr0:3:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:26,0 Invalid field in parameter list > > Any idea what's going on here? Did you try specifying a start & end track to cdplay? You need to do something like: cdplay cd0 play 1 2 to get it to work Gary