Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 15:55:47 -0600 From: "Ryan Thompson [LAM]" <listaccount@home.com> To: Dave Ason <dgason@mindspring.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD support DVD's ? Message-ID: <369138E3.2B6DD618@home.com> References: <002301be3764$c7cb4f80$a76456d1@dgason>
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> Dave Ason wrote: > > Hi there, > > I am getting ready to put together a new system. I'd like to run > FreeBSD and Win98 on it... > Does FreeBSD support DVD drives? If so, which ones? > > Thanks, Dave > dgason@mindspring.com Hi Dave. I own a Creative PC-DVD Dxr2 drive (the second generation 2x DVD, 24x CD-rom drive). It functions perfectly as an ATAPI CD-ROM under any release of FreeBSD I have tried (2.2.x and 3.0). That is, ISO9660 or audio discs work very well. As fas as DVD discs are concerned (i.e. movies), I'm not aware of any driver/software support for the decoder card under FreeBSD (or any UNIX/Linux flavour, for that matter). Creative certainly doesn't release X Windows versions of their movie player anyway. :) So... To answer your question as best as I can... ANY DVD-ROM (and, likely, even the new DVD-RAM) drives should function at least as CD-ROM drives under FreeBSD, so long as it sticks with a standard interface (IDE/SCSI) and I/O methods. If you plan on running Win98, however, you will certainly have no problem playing all DVDs (games/movies/other multimedia) under Win98, and using the drive as a basic CD-ROM under FreeBSD. Hope that helps at least a little bit :) Ryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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