DVD as secondary slave

[Wolfgang Gill]

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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