From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 8 13:56:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA12017 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 13:56:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA11974 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 13:56:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA26489; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 22:51:54 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA15763; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 22:51:54 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id WAA07558; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 22:49:36 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611082149.WAA07558@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Philips CDD2000 CD-R works as HP-4020i To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 22:49:36 +0100 (MET) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, cau@cc.gatech.edu Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <1828.847458543@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 8, 96 05:09:03 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)