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From: dietmar@venus.rhein.de (Dietmar van Heukelum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Play audio CD on SCSI-CDROM
Date: 31 Jul 1994 19:55:00 +0200
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Andreas Schulz (ats@first.gmd.de) wrote:
: Po-Jung Lin <pojung@u.washington.edu> wrote:
: >
: >	Is there any application can play audio cd on SCSI CDROM driver under
: >unix? Thank for you help.

: It depends on the unix and on the CDROM drive :-). For FreeBSD exists the
: program xcdplayer that may work. This depends on the CDROM drive, many
: of them use vendor specific commands to drive the CD play.
: I think xcdplayer may also work for NetBSD.

: --
I'm using an Apple CD 150 on an Adaptec 1542B with FreeBSD 1.1.5.
This works fine so far, but as Andreas stated it doesn't play audio
because it uses vendor specific commands.
Does anybody know where I can get a command description ?
BTW the drive is a SONY CDU561-20.

Thanks for your help.
Dietmar