Subject: How do I play audio cd's from USB external cdrom?
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: sucho2 <sucho2@vt.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/15/2002 14:10:35
Hi,

I just bought an Iomega USB CD-RW 16x10x40 external cdrom/recorder and it 
works well with NetBSD (1.6A).  I am able to record and read off the drive.  
However, when I try to play music (audio) from it, I get 
ioctl(CDIOCPLAYTRACKS): Invalid argument error!  What do I need to do to play 
audio cd off the external USB drive?

/dev/cd0a is my internal ATAPI cdrom
/dev/cd1a is my external USB cdrom

so to play audio, I am doing

cdplay -f  /dev/cd1a

or using xcdplayer,

xcdplayer -device /dev/cd1a

But all gives me that `ioctl(CDIOCPLAYTRACKS): Invalid argument` error!


Here's my short dmesg:

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umass0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 2 interface 0
umass: Iomega USB CDRW6402EXT-B, rev 2.00/11.00 addr2
umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
scsibus0 at umass0: 2 targets, 1 luns per target
scsibus: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
cd1 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <IOMEGA, CDRW6402EXT-B, UOSA> SCSI 5/cdrom 
removable
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Thanks


Yours sincerely,
Sung N. Cho,
Saturday, June 15, 2002.