Re: Audio CDs on Titanium G4 Powerbook
Bastien Nocera wrote:
>
> On 08 May 2001 10:35:57 -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> > Whoops, this was supposed to go to the list....
> >
> > Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > >
> > > > > 2) you must pass the argument "hdc=scsi" to the kernel on boot to make
> > > > > the ide-scsi package sense the drive and install a driver for
> > > > > it. i'm not sure how it works if you've compiled ide-scsi as a module,
> > > > > maybe you can insmod it with this argument (?). if your
> > > > > dvdrom/cdrom shows up as a different hd (a,b,d, whatever; check
> > > > > dmesg), you need to use that name in the kernel argument.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have a moment to explain exactly why this makes it work?
> > >
> > > Which part - the module problem or the hdx=scsi? The former: without a
> >
> > The reason eject doesn't work is that you prolly haven't updated
> > /dev/cdrom to point to your new device. If it points to /dev/hdc
> > and you're using ide-scsi, well, that isn't going to work, is it?
> >
> > BTW, DVD support has been in 2.2 kernels since at least 2.2.17, if
> > not sooner.
>
> Not sure about the version number, but what you're talking about are the
> DVD specific ioctl's. DVDs have worked under linux as expensive
> CD-drives for as long as they existed.
> This support you're talking about enables to do stuff like decyphering
> the DVD content on DVD movies and the likes, and are not needed to read
> an audio CD.
I can rip the video off my dvd drive with my completely unpatched
2.2.17 kernel. I had to patch previous 2.2 kernels, but I don't
remember the version numbers. You can assume 2.2.12 needed patching
... maybe even 2.2.15. Decrypting the encrypted dvds is a whole
other story.
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