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Date:      Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:03:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: firewire vs IDE DVD.
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0308261500200.27615-100000@thorn.ashke.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0308251555060.11766-100000@thorn.ashke.com>

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Anyone?  The same IDE drive plays back DVDs with mplayer under NetBSD
without any problems, however NetBSD seems to be using some IDE-to-SCSI
emulation.  Is it impossible to get IDE DVD drives to play back DVD
videose under FreeBSD?

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:

>
> Me again.
>
> I've grabbed the output from mplayer and the dump from ktrace/kdump and
> posted them at:
>
> http://memory.visualtech.com/kdump.txt (975 kB)
> http://memory.visualtech.com/mplayer.txt (1 kB)
>
> From mplayer.txt, you see that it's complaing:
>
> "Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd"
>
> Now /dev/dvd is a symlink to /dev/acd0:
>
> [ adamk@sorrow - /usr/home/adamk ]: ls -l /dev/dvd
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3 Aug 25 15:54 /dev/dvd -> /dev/acd0
>
> And /dev/acd0 looks like:
>
> [ adamk@sorrow - /usr/home/adamk ]: ls -l /dev/acd0
> crw-r--r--  1 root  operator  117,   0 Aug 25 15:36 /dev/acd0
>
> Note:  user 'adamk' is part of the 'operator' group.  In addition, I've
> tried this as root just in case there's some strange permission thing
> going on.  Still no luck.
>
> *Any* ideas?
>
> Adam
>
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm hoping someone can help me out here.
> >
> > I recently moved a firewire card and DVD drive that had been in my FreeBSD
> > box to another computer.  I replaced it with an IDE DVD drive.  The
> > probelm is that now I can't get mplayer or vlc to play any DVDs that had
> > previously worked with the firewire drive.
> >
> > I have, of course, made sure that /dev/dvd is a symbolic link to /dev/acd0
> > instead of /dev/cd0 (as it used to be).  The only difference that I can
> > think of is that FreeBSD sees the firewire drive as a scsi drive and sees
> > the ide drive as an ide drive.  Is DVD playback just not supported on IDE
> > drives on FreeBSD -CURRENT?
> >
> > Adam
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>



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