On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Bob Tennent wrote: > Hi. The Asus S5N laptop system comes with an external CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive > which is accessed by the laptop via a USB 2 connector. I can play > *unencrypted* DVDs (and presumably CDs) fine but, as of kernel 2.4.25, I > can't play encrypted DVDs. Here's what the ogle people say about it: > > Linux has its strange special ioctl interface > to the CSS (the DVD encryption stuff) that is implemented for ide-cdrom and > ide-scsi. It's really just ATAPI/SCSI commands though. > However the USB stack (and other communication stacks) do not implement > this. > So in short Linux does not support USB DVD drives.
Can you post a URL to the interchange you had with the ogle people? Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
