Thanks Perry and Frederick, this is all working beautifully now.  And
also thanks for the tip to use xmcd.

-russ

Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net> writes:

> On 22 Sep 2002, Russell McManus wrote:
> 
> >
> > I've got a scsi cd drive attached to my laptop, that I'd like to use.
> > How does one name this drive?  For example, xcdplayer has a -device
> > option, but I can't figure out what to pass to the application.
> >
> > xcdplayer works fine with the cd drive installed in the laptop.
> > ktruss doesn't seem to help, there are no open() system calls in the
> > /dev tree.
> >
> > I would have thought that /dev/cd1 or /dev/rcd1 or cd1 or rcd1 would
> > have been the right thing, but no joy.
> 
> More than likely, "/dev/rcd1d" would work. That's the raw character
> device, and supports the maximum number of cd ioctls. Also
> "/dev/rcd1a", "/dev/cd1a" or "/dev/cd1d" might work, too.
> 
> By the way, "xcdplayer" is pretty lame. It doesn't have much over the
> command line "cdplay" included with the base system. Both "xmcd" and
> "gdcd" support looking up the name of the album and songs on the
> internet when the CD is inserted, among other things. "xmcd" is my
> personal favorite, for playing CD's. "xmms" can play CD's and MP3's,
> both, but that may be overkill.
> 
> Frederick