Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 22:49:36 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, cau@cc.gatech.edu Subject: Re: Philips CDD2000 CD-R works as HP-4020i Message-ID: <199611082149.WAA07558@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <1828.847458543@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 8, 96 05:09:03 am"
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 1) can I use it as a CD reader, by putting in a standard CDROM ? > This is a known problem. The device functions either as a CDROM drive > (if you don't assign it to worm0) or as a worm, but not both. > According to Joerg, this is not trivial to fix and so he hasn't done > it (or maybe it's relatively trivial but he just doesn't have any > time, rendering it non-trivial in a different sense :-). Oh, i didn't say it this way. :-) The code is even already _supposed_ to allow reading the CDs, but it plain simply doesn't do it. Of all the people using a CD-R by now, they all seem to have a working CD-ROM drive anyway, so nobody has been bothered enough by that bug to really look what it is, but everybody just simply preferred swapping the burnt CD-R out into the CD-ROM drive... The only thing that's more difficult to add (without duplicating all the code) is the CD-ROM driver ioctl ``add-ons'' like eject and play support. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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