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From: julian@TFS.COM (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: xcdplayer, is there a port for FreeBSD?
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Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
References: <BRIAN.93Nov12135602@sun1.claremont.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 01:30:32 GMT
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In article <BRIAN.93Nov12135602@sun1.claremont.com>,
Brian Childs <brian@sun1.claremont.com> wrote:
>
>I downloaded xcdplayer-386bsd-Dec92 from agate, and tried to port it to
>FreeBSD, but it seems that any IOCTL sent to the device fails.

>Does the scsi driver for FreeBSD support playing audio cd's?
>Has anyone already ported xcdplayer?

The audio commands in the cdrom driver are only valid for COMPLETELY CONFORMING
SCSI-2 cdroms. This excludes most of the NEC range (for example).



julian