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Date:      Fri, 4 Dec 1998 16:05:39 -0600
From:      Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com>
To:        Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Does DVD emulate CDROM?
Message-ID:  <19981204160539.A79347@znh.org>
In-Reply-To: <199812041829.NAA17103@fnur.3skel.com>; from Dan Janowski on Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 01:29:49PM -0500
References:  <199812041829.NAA17103@fnur.3skel.com>

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On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 01:29:49PM -0500, Dan Janowski wrote:
> I understand that FreeBSD does not support DVD functionality,
> but can it deal with a DVD as a CDROM without a problem?
> Specifically I am looking at laptops and the good ones
> now come with DVDs only.

I'm pretty sure I saw a message from JKH offering hardware to anyone who
can fix DVD compatibility (some Creative Labs hardware).

I have a couple questions as well:

Do SCSI DVD players automatically work?  I could see a problem with playing
DVD movies, but perhaps not reading data.  Is that what's meant about a
'cdrom' emulation mode?

Since 'cdrecord' supports SCSI-DVD, at least writing a DVD-RAM should work.

-- 
Zach Heilig (zach@gaffaneys.com)

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