Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:47:13 +0100 From: Christopher Raven <c.raven@ukonline.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Problems with ATAPI CDROM Message-ID: <35FE6FE0.FFC41A55@ukonline.co.uk>
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Andriss wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Willow wrote: > > >We found a few ATAPI drives that would not work with FreeBSD (2.2.6-2.2.7) > >The Acer drives gave us a problem as did the NEC 4-by-8X drives, but other > >than that all the others we tried work fine. > > I installed FreeBSD 2.2.7-release (CD set) using an... Acer ATAPI CD-ROM. > It is an Acer 32X IDE/ATAPI Drive set as slave on primary IDE controller. > > Seems to work fine as far as data goes and plays Audio CD's when I press > the "Play" button on the CD-ROM itself, but, surprisingly, I can't > get any "software" CD players to work with it. > > Not a biggie since I can just press that button, but still... > > Does anyone have any information, or suggestions? > > Andriss > If you can mount it for data ok: #mount /cdrom then try starting your audio software specifying device i.e. : #workman -c /dev/wcd0a Or whatever player you use - you can read its manual pages #man <player name> If you put the correct one for your player into .xinitrc / .xsession, you can have it ready to play when X starts. rgds, Chris R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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