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From: Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Access DVD drive
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:25:12 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060724092322.2DE2.NICK@rout.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607241747.12400.gentoo@steffen-mazanek.de>

It is probably /dev/sda, but you are right, its hard to tell on that
information!

If so playing the dvd is something like:

xine dvd://dev/sda



On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:47:11 +0200
Steffen Mazanek wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have an external usb dvd drive. dmesg returns
> 
>   Vendor: BENQ      Model: DVD DD EW164B     Rev: BEFB
>   Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 00
>  0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
> usb-storage: device scan complete
> 
> How can I play a dvd with it? What is the name of this device
> to give as a parameter to the dvd player software (I use ogle)?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Steffen
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-23 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-24 15:47 [gentoo-user] Access DVD drive Steffen Mazanek
2006-07-23 21:25 ` Nick Rout [this message]
2006-07-23 21:36 ` Raymond Lewis Rebbeck

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