On Sat, 14 Dec 1996 13:40:38 +0200 (EET) 
 Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi> wrote:

 > Is it possible to use xmcd (a Motif CD player software) with NetBSD 1.2 and
 > ATAPI CD-ROM drives?
 > 
 > I built xmcd with lesstif 0.75 and it seems to work - but it can't talk to
 > my ATAPI drive.  The simple cdplayer software I got from the ATAPI driver's
 > author works fine (so the drive is OK).
 > 
 > xmcd looks to nice.. I want to get it going.. :-)  Any ideas or experiences?

The last time I looked, xmcd used SCSI command passthrough directly.  One
of two things needs to happen:

	(1) xmcd needs to be taught to use the CDIO* ioctl suite, or

	(2) the ATAPI code needs to become a `scsibus' attached to
	    an IDE controller (which is how BSD/OS does it).

If (2), then the SCSI CD-ROM driver and SCSI passthrough could be
used with ATAPI devices.

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