Reading regular DVD's

Tim Aslat tim at spyderweb.com.au
Wed Jun 30 23:25:40 PDT 2004


In the immortal words of SmartServ Hosting <jeremy at smart-serv.net>...

> dmesg | grep acd
> acd0: DVDR <HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4082B> at ata1-master UDMA33
> 
> FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT
> 
> When I insert a DVD movie /dev/acd0c doesn't register therefore I
> cannot use mplayer or anything to view the DVD.

That's because under FreeBSD 5.1 and over, the device /dev/acd0c is no
longer used and only the base device /dev/acd0 is used

Cheers

Tim


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