From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Nov 13 9:41:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAA2937B4C5; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 09:41:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA67208; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:41:26 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ken) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:41:26 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Ross Lippert Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Yamaha 8824S CDR Message-ID: <20001113104126.A67137@panzer.kdm.org> References: <200011131402.GAA28553@eskimo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200011131402.GAA28553@eskimo.com>; from ripper@eskimo.com on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 06:02:55AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 06:02:55 -0800, Ross Lippert wrote: > > (using freeBSD4.1) > > Hi. I just got this Yamaha CDR. It seemed fairly well supported from > what I could see on the web and it was in stock at circuit city > (though it called itself Pacific digital on the box-- I don't know > why). > > Burning (with cdrecord) works good at the full 8x speed (occassionally > a startup check of the CDR produces a nonfatal message, but it always > rechecks and succeeds). > > Playback is a little weird. Depending on whether I am using xmcd or > cdplay, some random non-fatal messages pop up about sub channels (I'd > cut and paste, but I am at work now, not at home). Also, cdplay > doesn't play the last track (seems to think it is 0 length or > something) while xmcd does, but xmcd doesn't tic seconds by during > play while cdplay does. Am I expecting too much? It'll be difficult to diagnose this without the error messages. Have you tried this with different CDs? One thing that is likely different between xmcd and cdplay (never used cdplay) is that xmcd uses the SCSI passthrough driver (pass(4)), while cdplay likely uses the cd(4) ioctl mechanism. Either should work okay, although I've found applications in the past (most recently xmms, I think it has been fixed) with buggy code to handle the cd(4) ioctl interface. What happens when you use cdcontrol to play the cd? Does that work? Do you get any error messages? Can you play the last track? Also, xmcd asks you to tell it what sort of drive you have, and it adjusts its behavior accordingly. It will also sometimes list functionality that is not available with a particular drive. Are you certain you configured xmcd for the right drive, and did it list any drive quirks when you configured it? Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message