DVD as secondary slave
Wolfgang Gill
wolfgang at rpi.net.au
Fri Mar 26 00:42:54 UTC 2004
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:40:13 +0100, Paul Ryan wrote
> Hello I wrote before but my first letter was somewhat unclear as to what
> my problem is my CDROM is the secondary slave,formally hdc now (scd1
> or cdrom1) and I can not get Xine to play VCDO or VCD. No matter
> what I do it trys to access the CDwriter (scd0 or CDROM ). I have
> tried the following
>
> [root at localhost root]# ln -sf /dev/cdrom1 /dev/dvd
> [root at localhost root]# ls -al /dev/dvd
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Mar 25 20:33 /dev/dvd ->
> /dev/cdrom1
> [root at localhost root]# ls -al /dev/cdrom1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 23 17:21 /dev/cdrom1 -
> > /dev/scd1[root at localhost root]# ls -al /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1
> root root 9 Mar 23 17:21 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/sc
>
> Everything seems to be correct but when I hit the VCDO button it
> still trys to access the primary master and not the slave drive
> (cdrom1) like I want it to. I want to correct this for two reasons
> first the kids shouldn't touch the writer and second I want to
> replace the CDROM with a DVD. Any hints would be greatly
> appreciated. Paul Ryan
>
That's because you have to tell Xine, to look for DVD's/VCD's on /dev/cdrom1.
It would have defaulted to /dev/cdrom or /dev/DVD.
Wolf
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