On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:59:57AM -0500, Loren Burlingame wrote: >Hello LUGers, > >I am trying to set up a raw IO device for my DVD-ROM (/dev/hdd) and have >reached an impasse. > >Many sites have pointed me to >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/sct/raw-io to get a kernel >patch, however, I see that the most recent patch there is over a year old. I don't think you need a kernel patch for this. I don't use one for my DVD-ROM. RAW device means reading directly from /dev/hdd as opposed to mounting it like you do a CD (mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom) most of the dvd playing apps are set by default to look for /dev/dvd and /dev/rdvd. You should be able to configure that or just make symlinks ln -sf /dev/hdd /dev/dvd ln -sf /dev/hdd /dev/rdvd > >I am using a bleeding edge kernel (2.4.19pre8) and am assuming this code is >already implemented in the newer kernel source trees. > >My problem is, I cannot, for the life of me, find the option in the >kernel configure script to enable raw devices; or if support for raw devices >is >automatically compiled into the kernel I do not know how to set them up >since all documentation I have found says to use the 'raw' executable (which >I don't have). > >It is extremely possible that I am missing something very obvious here (like >maybe 'raw' is part of another software package that has yet to be upgraded >on my system?) > >Anyway, any help you could give me would be appreciated. > >LB >_______________________________________________ >Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Ben Lutgens | http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ System Administrator | http://www.sistina.com/ Sistina Software Inc. | "I got a wife and kids too but you don't see me out here stealing Imperial Droids now do ya?" -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020612/0d4cd2fe/attachment.pgp