Re: audio cds ?


Subject: Re: audio cds ?
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt (bh40@calva.net)
Date: Fri Oct 27 2000 - 08:42:21 MDT


>Is MacOS under mol supposed to be able to find and play audio cds,
>assuming the cd is in the drive when mol is started? I could swear
>this used to work once upon a time. Am I misremembering? It
>definitely hasn't worked for me since I replaced by 7500 (MacOS 8.6,
>scsi internal cd) with a G4 (MacOS 9.0.4, ide internal cd).
>
>If I use the "-force" option for the /dev/hdc blkdev, mol says "no
>medium found". If I don't, mol says "incompatible medium". Either
>way, or if I don't include /dev/hdc as a blkdev at all, the MacOS cd
>player says "The Apple cd-rom drive is not responding."
>
>I'm running mol 0.9.52, linux kernel 2.2.17pre20-ben3.

For this to work, the MOL block driver should be extended to support the
various CD-specific status/control calls required. I think it's
documented somewhere, I'll try to find the infos.

Ben.



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