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From: Andrew Atrens <atrens@nortel.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CD player for ATAPI CDROM ?
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:53:18 -0500
Organization: Nortel Technology (formerly Bell Northern Research)
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Stan Brown wrote:
> 
>         Coming from the Workstation world, when I got my FreeBSD system
> up, one of the first things I tried to set up was xmcd, the CD player
> that I am used to using. Unfortunately it appears to only work on
> SCSI CD's. Can anyone point me to the correct player software for an
> ATAPI CDROM ?

I have an ATAPI 4X cdrom and I'm happily using both xmcd and workman.
Both of these are in the FreeBSD ports collection.

Cheers,

Andrew.
( Opinions are mine, not Nortels )