From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Dec 4 16:43:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA14617 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 16:43:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shadow.spel.com (elevator.cablenet-va.com [208.206.84.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA14608 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 16:43:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mturpin@shadow.spel.com) Received: from localhost (mturpin@localhost) by shadow.spel.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA13413; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 19:49:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 19:49:32 -0500 (EST) From: Mark turpin To: Zach Heilig cc: Dan Janowski , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does DVD emulate CDROM? In-Reply-To: <19981204160539.A79347@znh.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Zach Heilig wrote: > 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? I don't think that you can read the data off a DVD. DVDs use a different file format (UDF) than cds. There is some info on UDF at http://www.osta.org I don't see any problem with reading CDs. Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Turpin | Consulting - Training - Network Installation Systems Engineer | Main Street Technology Centre | http://www.MainStreetTech.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message