Re: New CD/DVD reports 'Can Play Audio NO'

["Boris Petkov" <petkovbb@googlemail.com>]

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>>> Thanks.  sr.c just doesn't check whether the drive reports audio play
>>> capability or not.  It just sets it while ide-cd actually checks for
>>> the capability.  The drive is not reporting it while it can so ide-cd
>>> needs blacklist entry for it.  Now that idecd has blacklist entry, all
>>> should be fine.  Eh... I'm not sure whether we need to update sr to
>>> follow what ide-cd is doing or not.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> Actually, as I already pointed out, I'm not at all happy with blacklisting
>> stuff. What sounds more sane to me (and this is only me) would be what sr.c
>> does: assume that per se the drive can play audio and try to play it. But how
>> many drives are there that cannot play audio, aka, would it be a safe assumption
>> to say that their number is so diminishingly small that it would be better to
>> announce that a drive can play audio by default and fail graciously in the
>> _very_ seldom case it actually cannot ...
>>
>
> Hmm... I don't know.  I think the flag indicates whether the drive has
> DAC and analog audio output, right?

Currently, ide-cd checks the AudioPlay bit advertized in the CD-ROM Capabilities
and Mechanical Status Page.

> I have quite some SATA drives which
> don't have audio output at all.  I haven't check what they report on the
> mode sense page yet.  Eh... well, having the bit set when the drive
> doesn't support it doesn't hurt too much (yet).  Bartlomiej, what do you
> think?

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris