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@localhost root]# ln -sf /dev/cdrom1 /dev/dvd > [root@localhost root]# ls -al /dev/dvd > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Mar 25 20:33 /dev/dvd -> > /dev/cdrom1 > [root@localhost root]# ls -al /dev/cdrom1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 23 17:21 /dev/cdrom1 - > > /dev/scd1[root@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 -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)
