playing cd using drive with IDE_SCSI

Gregory Nowak greg at romuald.net.eu.org
Mon Jan 20 20:38:29 EST 2003


I have used jac on a ide-scsi cdrw drive with no problems.

Greg


On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:15:49PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Hi all. Well I guess you can guess from the subject line, I am in fact
> able to play Cds successfully on my CDRW drive, which is using IDE_SCSI
> emulation. However, when I go to use programs such as dcd, their Ioctl
> reports illegal request. However, the cd still plays. More interestingly,
> when I use cd-console, an Ncurses-based Cd player, the pause function
> doesn't work, and play doesn't work either. That program doesn't even
> respond very much. I never had this problem before, because in my other
> machine I had two drives. And the CDROM drive (32 X) was the one being
> used as a Cd player and general purpose data reading. However this machine
> only has room for one extra drive so the CDRW was my drive of choice. I
> believe that the most likely cause of the "illegal request" is because the
> IDESCSI driver doesn't implement the functions used by programs such as
> dcd to play audio Cds? I haven't actually put the program into debug mode
> to figure this out, however I am planning to do this sometime in the near
> future. Has anyone else gotten this message or similar in their Cd player
> aps? Does my theorizing on this seem to be correct? Thx for any input!
> 
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