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          Readme-File /usr/src/Documentation/cdrom/aztcd

                                for

             AZTECH CD-ROM CDA268-01A, ORCHID CD-3110,

      OKANO/WEARNES CDD110, CONRAD TXC, CyCDROM CR520, CR540

                           CD-ROM Drives

                       Version 2.5 and newer

                   (for other drives see 6.-8.)

NOTE: THIS DRIVER WILL WORK WITH THE CD-ROM DRIVES LISTED, WHICH HAVE

      A PROPRIETARY INTERFACE (implemented on a sound card or on an

      ISA-AT-bus card).

      IT WILL DEFINITELY NOT WORK WITH CD-ROM DRIVES WITH *IDE*-INTERFACE,

      such as the Aztech CDA269-031SE !!! (The only known exceptions are

      'faked' IDE drives like the CyCDROM CR520ie which work with aztcd

      under certain conditions, see 7.). IF YOU'RE USING A CD-ROM DRIVE

      WITH IDE-INTERFACE, SOMETIMES ALSO CALLED ATAPI-COMPATIBLE, PLEASE

      USE THE ide-cd.c DRIVER, WRITTEN BY MARK LORD AND SCOTT SNYDER !

      THE STANDARD-KERNEL 1.2.x NOW ALSO SUPPORTS IDE-CDROM-DRIVES, SEE THE

      HARDDISK (!) SECTION OF make config, WHEN COMPILING A NEW KERNEL!!!

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Contents of this file:

                         1.  NOTE

                         2.  INSTALLATION

                         3.  CONFIGURING YOUR KERNEL

                         4.  RECOMPILING YOUR KERNEL

                         4.1   AZTCD AS A RUN-TIME LOADABLE MODULE

                         4.2   CDROM CONNECTED TO A SOUNDCARD

                         5.  KNOWN PROBLEMS, FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

                         5.1   MULTISESSION SUPPORT

                         5.2   STATUS RECOGNITION

                         5.3   DOSEMU's CDROM SUPPORT

                         6.  BUG REPORTS

                         7.  OTHER DRIVES

                         8.  IF YOU DON'T SUCCEED ... DEBUGGING

                         9.  TECHNICAL HISTORY OF THE DRIVER

                        10.  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

                        11.  PROGRAMMING ADD ONS: CDPLAY.C

                        APPENDIX: Source code of cdplay.c

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1. NOTE

This software has been successfully in alpha and beta test and is part of

the standard kernel since kernel 1.1.8x since December 1994. It works with

AZTECH CDA268-01A, ORCHID CDS-3110, ORCHID/WEARNES CDD110 and CONRAD TXC

(Nr.99 31 23 -series 04) and has proven to be stable with kernel versions 1.0.9

to 1.3.72. But with any software there still may be bugs in it. So if you

encounter problems, you are invited to help us improve this software. Please

send me a detailed bug report (see chapter BUG REPORTS). You are also invited

in helping us to increase the number of drives, which are supported.

Please read the README-files carefully and always keep a backup copy of your

old kernel, in order to reboot if something goes wrong!

2. INSTALLATION

The driver consists of a header file 'aztcd.h', which normally should reside

in /usr/include/linux and the source code 'aztcd.c', which normally resides in

/usr/src/linux/drivers/cdrom. It uses /dev/aztcd (/dev/aztcd0 in some distri-

butions), which must be a valid block device with major number 29 and reside

in directory /dev. To mount a CD-ROM, your kernel needs to have the ISO9660-

filesystem support included.

PLEASE NOTE: aztcd.c has been developed in parallel to the linux kernel,

which had and is having many major and minor changes which are not backward

compatible. Quite definitely aztcd.c version 1.80 and newer will NOT work

in kernels older than 1.3.33. So please always use the most recent version

of aztcd.c with the appropriate linux-kernel.

3.  CONFIGURING YOUR KERNEL

If your kernel is already configured for using the AZTECH driver you will

see the following message while Linux boots:

    Aztech CD-ROM Init: DriverVersion= BaseAddress=

    Aztech CD-ROM Init: FirmwareVersion=>>

    Aztech CD-ROM Init:  detected

    Aztech CD-ROM Init: End

If the message looks different and you are sure to have a supported drive,

it may have a different base address. The Aztech driver does look for the

CD-ROM drive at the base address specified in aztcd.h at compile time. This

address can be overwritten by boot parameter aztcd=....You should reboot and

start Linux with boot parameter aztcd=, e.g. aztcd=0x320. If

you do not know the base address, start your PC with DOS and look at the boot

message of your CD-ROM's DOS driver. If that still does not help, use boot

parameter aztcd=,0x79 , this tells aztcd to try a little harder.

If the message looks correct, as user 'root' you should be able to mount the

drive by

          mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/aztcd0 /mnt

and use it as any other filesystem. (If this does not work, check if

/dev/aztcd0 and /mnt do exist and create them, if necessary by doing

      mknod /dev/aztcd0 b 29 0

      mkdir /mnt

If you still get a different message while Linux boots or when you get the

message, that the ISO9660-filesystem is not supported by your kernel, when

you try to mount the CD-ROM drive, you have to recompile your kernel.

If you do *not* have an Aztech/Orchid/Okano/Wearnes/TXC drive and want to

bypass drive detection during Linux boot up, start with boot parameter aztcd=0.

Most distributions nowadays do contain a boot disk image containing aztcd.

Please note, that this driver will not work with IDE/ATAPI drives! With these

you must use ide-cd.c instead.

4. RECOMPILING YOUR KERNEL

If your kernel is not yet configured for the AZTECH driver and the ISO9660-

filesystem, you have to recompile your kernel:

- Edit aztcd.h to set the I/O-address to your I/O-Base address (AZT_BASE_ADDR),

  the driver does not use interrupts or DMA, so if you are using an AZTECH

  CD268, an ORCHID CD-3110 or ORCHID/WEARNES CDD110 that's the only item you

  have to set up. If you have a soundcard, read chapter 4.2.

  Users of other drives should read chapter OTHER DRIVES of this file.

  You also can configure that address by kernel boot parameter aztcd=...

- There are some other points, which may be configured, e.g. auto-eject the

  CD when unmounting a drive, tray locking etc., see aztcd.h for details.

- Build a new kernel, configure it for 'Aztech/Orchid/Okano/Wearnes support'

  (if you want aztcd to be part of the kernel). Do not configure it for

  'Aztech... support', if you want to use aztcd as a run time loadable module.

  But in any case you must have the ISO9660-filesystem included in your

  kernel.

- Activate the new kernel, normally this is done by running LILO (don't for-

  get to configure it before and to keep a copy of your old kernel in case

  something goes wrong!).

- Reboot

- If you've included aztcd in your kernel, you now should see during boot

  some messages like

    Aztech CD-ROM Init: DriverVersion= BaseAddress=

    Aztech CD-ROM Init: FirmwareVersion=

    Aztech CD-ROM Init:  detected

    Aztech CD-ROM Init: End

- If you have not included aztcd in your kernel, but want to load aztcd as a

  run time loadable module see 4.1.

- If the message looks correct, as user 'root' you should be able to mount

  the drive by

          mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/aztcd0 /mnt

  and use it as any other filesystem. (If this does not work, check if

  /dev/aztcd0 and /mnt do exist and create them, if necessary by doing

      mknod /dev/aztcd0 b 29 0

      mkdir /mnt

- If this still does not help, see chapters OTHER DRIVES and DEBUGGING.

4.1 AZTCD AS A RUN-TIME LOADABLE MODULE

If you do not need aztcd permanently, you can also load and remove the driver

during runtime via insmod and rmmod. To build aztcd as a loadable module you

must configure your kernel for AZTECH module support (answer 'm' when con-

figuring the kernel). Anyhow, you may run into problems, if the version of

your boot kernel is not the same than the source kernel version, from which

you create the modules. So rebuild your kernel, if necessary.

Now edit the base address of your AZTECH interface card in

/usr/src/linux/include/linux/aztcd.h to the appropriate value. There are

also some special features which may be configured, e.g. auto-eject a CD

when unmounting the drive etc; see aztcd.h for details. Then change

to /usr/src/linux and do a

                    make modules

                    make modules_install

After that you can run-time load the driver via

                    insmod /lib/modules/X.X.X/misc/aztcd.o

and remove it via   rmmod  aztcd.

If you did not set the correct base address in aztcd.h, you can also supply the

base address when loading the driver via

                    insmod /lib/modules/X.X.X/misc/aztcd.o aztcd=

If you do not have the iso9660-filesystem in your boot kernel, you also have

to load it before you can mount the CDROM:

                    insmod /lib/modules/X.X.X/fs/isofs.o

The mount procedure works as described in 4. above.

(In all commands 'X.X.X' is the current linux kernel version number. For details

see file modules.txt in /usr/src/linux/Documentation)

4.2 CDROM CONNECTED TO A SOUNDCARD

Most soundcards do have a bus interface to the CDROM-drive. In many cases

this soundcard needs to be configured, before the CDROM can be used. This

configuration procedure consists of writing some kind of initialization

data to the soundcard registers. The AZTECH-CDROM driver in the moment does

only support one type of soundcard (SoundWave32). Users of other soundcards

should try to boot DOS first and let their DOS drivers initialize the

soundcard and CDROM, then warm boot (or use loadlin) their PC to start

Linux.

Support for the CDROM-interface of SoundWave32-soundcards is directly

implemented in the AZTECH driver. Please edit /usr/src/linux/include/aztdc.h,

uncomment line '#define AZT_SW32' and set the appropriate value for

AZT_BASE_ADDR and AZT_SW32_BASE_ADDR. This support was tested with an Orchid

CDS-3110 connected to a SoundWave32.

If you want your soundcard to be supported, find out, how it needs to be

configured and mail me (see 6.) the appropriate information.

5. KNOWN PROBLEMS, FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

5.1 MULTISESSION SUPPORT

Multisession support for CD's still is a myth. I implemented and tested a basic

support for multisession and XA CDs, but I still have not enough CDs and appli-

cations to test it rigourously. So if you'd like to help me, please contact me

(Email address see below). As of version 1.4 and newer you can enable the

multisession support in aztcd.h by setting AZT_MULTISESSION to 1. Doing so

will cause the ISO9660-filesystem to deal with multisession CDs, ie. redirect

requests to the Table of Contents (TOC) information from the last session,

which contains the info of all previous sessions etc.. If you do set

AZT_MULTISESSION to 0, you can use multisession CDs anyway. In that case the

drive's firmware will do automatic redirection. For the ISO9660-filesystem any

multisession CD  will then look like a 'normal' single session CD. But never-

theless the data of all sessions are viewable and accessible. So with practical-

ly all real world applications you won't notice the difference. But as future

applications may make use of advanced multisession features, I've started to

implement the interface for the ISO9660 multisession interface via ioctl

CDROMMULTISESSION.

5.2 STATUS RECOGNITION

The drive status recognition does not work correctly in all cases. Changing

a disk or having the door open, when a drive is already mounted, is detected

by the Aztech driver itself, but nevertheless causes multiple read attempts

by the different layers of the ISO9660-filesystem driver, which finally timeout,

so you have to wait quite a little... But isn't it bad style to change a disk

in a mounted drive, anyhow ?!

The driver uses busy wait in most cases for the drive handshake (macros

STEN_LOW and DTEN_LOW). I tested with a 486/DX2 at 66MHz and a Pentium at

60MHz and 90MHz. Whenever you use a much faster machine you are likely to get

timeout messages. In that case edit aztcd.h and increase the timeout value

AZT_TIMEOUT.

For some 'slow' drive commands I implemented waiting with a timer waitqueue

(macro STEN_LOW_WAIT). If you get this timeout message, you may also edit

aztcd.h and increase the timeout value AZT_STATUS_DELAY. The waitqueue has

shown to be a little critical. If you get kernel panic messages, edit aztcd.c

and substitute STEN_LOW_WAIT by STEN_LOW. Busy waiting with STEN_LOW is more

stable, but also causes CPU overhead.

5.3 DOSEMU's CD-ROM SUPPORT

With release 1.20 aztcd was modified to allow access to CD-ROMS when running

under dosemu-0.60.0 aztcd-versions before 1.20 are most likely to crash

Linux, when a CD-ROM is accessed under dosemu. This problem has partly been

fixed, but still when accessing a directory for the first time the system

might hang for some 30sec. So be patient, when using dosemu's CD-ROM support

in combination with aztcd :-) !

This problem has now (July 1995) been fixed by a modification to dosemu's

CD-ROM driver. The new version came with dosemu-0.60.2, see dosemu's

README.CDROM.

6. BUG REPORTS

Please send detailed bug reports and bug fixes via EMail to

        zimmerma@rz.fht-esslingen.de

Please include a description of your CD-ROM drive type and interface card,

the exact firmware message during Linux bootup, the version number of the

AZTECH-CDROM-driver and the Linux kernel version. Also a description of your

system's other hardware could be of interest, especially microprocessor type,

clock frequency, other interface cards such as soundcards, ethernet adapter,

game cards etc..

I will try to collect the reports and make the necessary modifications from

time to time. I may also come back to you directly with some bug fixes and

ask you to do further testing and debugging.

Editors of CD-ROMs are invited to send a 'cooperation' copy of their

CD-ROMs to the volunteers, who provided the CD-ROM support for Linux. My

snail mail address for such 'stuff' is

           Prof. Dr. W. Zimmermann

           Fachhochschule fuer Technik Esslingen

           Fachbereich IT

           Flandernstrasse 101

           D-73732 Esslingen

           Germany

7. OTHER DRIVES

The following drives ORCHID CDS3110, OKANO CDD110, WEARNES CDD110 and Conrad

TXC Nr. 993123-series 04 nearly look the same as AZTECH CDA268-01A, especially

they seem to use the same command codes. So it was quite simple to make the

AZTECH driver work with these drives.

Unfortunately I do not have any of these drives available, so I couldn't test

it myself. In some installations, it seems necessary to initialize the drive

with the DOS driver before (especially if combined with a sound card) and then

do a warm boot (CTRL-ALT-RESET) or start Linux from DOS, e.g. with 'loadlin'.

If you do not succeed, read chapter DEBUGGING. Thanks in advance!

Sorry for the inconvenience, but it is difficult to develop for hardware,

which you don't have available for testing. So if you like, please help us.

If you do have a CyCDROM CR520ie thanks to Hilmar Berger's help your chances

are good, that it will work with aztcd. The CR520ie is sold as an IDE-drive

and really is connected to the IDE interface (primary at 0x1F0 or secondary

at 0x170, configured as slave, not as master). Nevertheless it is not ATAPI

compatible but still uses Aztech's command codes.

8. DEBUGGING : IF YOU DON'T SUCCEED, TRY THE FOLLOWING

-reread the complete README file

-make sure, that your drive is hardware configured for

    transfer mode: polled

    IRQ:           not used

    DMA:           not used

    Base Address:  something like 300, 320 ...

 You can check this, when you start the DOS driver, which came with your

 drive. By appropriately configuring the drive and the DOS driver you can

 check, whether your drive does operate in this mode correctly under DOS. If

 it does not operate under DOS, it won't under Linux.

 If your drive's base address is something like 0x170 or 0x1F0 (and it is

 not a CyCDROM CR520ie or CR 940ie) you most likely are having an IDE/ATAPI-

 compatible drive, which is not supported by aztcd.c, use ide-cd.c instead.

 Make sure the Base Address is configured correctly in aztcd.h, also make

 sure, that /dev/aztcd0 exists with the correct major number (compare it with

 the entry in file /usr/include/linux/major.h for the Aztech drive).

-insert a CD-ROM and close the tray

-cold boot your PC (i.e. via the power on switch or the reset button)

-if you start Linux via DOS, e.g. using loadlin, make sure, that the DOS

 driver for the CD-ROM drive is not loaded (comment out the calling lines

 in DOS' config.sys!)

-look for the aztcd: init message during Linux init and note them exactly

-log in as root and do a mount -t iso9660 /dev/aztcd0 /mnt

-if you don't succeed in the first time, try several times. Try also to open

 and close the tray, then mount again. Please note carefully all commands

 you typed in and the aztcd-messages, which you get.

-if you get an 'Aztech CD-ROM init: aborted' message, read the remarks about

 the version string below.

If this does not help, do the same with the following differences

-start DOS before; make now sure, that the DOS driver for the CD-ROM is

 loaded under DOS (i.e. uncomment it again in config.sys)

-warm boot your PC (i.e. via CTRL-ALT-DEL)

 if you have it, you can also start via loadlin (try both).

 ...

 Again note all commands and the aztcd-messages.

If you see STEN_LOW or STEN_LOW_WAIT error messages, increase the timeout

values.

If this still does not help,

-look in aztcd.c for the lines  #if 0

                                #define AZT_TEST1

                                ...

                                #endif

 and substitute '#if 0' by '#if 1'.

-recompile your kernel and repeat the above two procedures. You will now get

 a bundle of debugging messages from the driver. Again note your commands

 and the appropriate messages. If you have syslogd running, these messages

 may also be found in syslogd's kernel log file. Nevertheless in some

 installations syslogd does not yet run, when init() is called, thus look for

 the aztcd-messages during init, before the login-prompt appears.

 Then look in aztcd.c, to find out, what happened. The normal calling sequence

 is: aztcd_init() during Linux bootup procedure init()

 after doing a 'mount -t iso9660 /dev/aztcd0 /mnt' the normal calling sequence is

     aztcd_open()    -> Status 2c after cold reboot with CDROM or audio CD inserted

                     -> Status 8  after warm reboot with CDROM inserted

                     -> Status 2e after cold reboot with no disk, closed tray

                     -> Status 6e after cold reboot, mount with door open

     aztUpdateToc()

     aztGetDiskInfo()

     aztGetQChannelInfo()   repeated several times

     aztGetToc()

     aztGetQChannelInfo()   repeated several times

     a list of track information

     do_aztcd_request()  }

     azt_transfer()    } repeated several times

     azt_poll          }

 Check, if there is a difference in the calling sequence or the status flags!

 There are a lot of other messages, eg. the ACMD-command code (defined in

 aztcd.h), status info from the getAztStatus-command and the state sequence of

 the finite state machine in azt_poll(). The most important are the status

 messages, look how they are defined and try to understand, if they make

 sense in the context where they appear. With a CD-ROM inserted the status

 should always be 8, except in aztcd_open(). Try to open the tray, insert a

 audio disk, insert no disk or reinsert the CD-ROM and check, if the status

 bits change accordingly. The status bits are the most likely point, where

 the drive manufacturers may implement changes.

If you still don't succeed, a good point to start is to look in aztcd.c in

function aztcd_init, where the drive should be detected during init. Do the

following:

-reboot the system with boot parameter 'aztcd=,0x79'. With

 parameter 0x79 most of the drive version detection is bypassed. After that

 you should see the complete version string including leading and trailing

 blanks during init.

 Now adapt the statement

      if ((result[1]=='A')&&(result[2]=='Z' ...)

 in aztcd_init() to exactly match the first 3 or 4 letters you have seen.

-Another point is the 'smart' card detection feature in aztcd_init(). Normally

 the CD-ROM drive is ready, when aztcd_init is trying to read the version

 string and a time consuming ACMD_SOFT_RESET command can be avoided. This is

 detected by looking, if AFL_OP_OK can be read correctly. If the CD-ROM drive

 hangs in some unknown state, e.g. because of an error before a warm start or

 because you first operated under DOS, even the version string may be correct,

 but the following commands will not. Then change the code in such a way,

 that the ACMD_SOFT_RESET is issued in any case, by substituting the

 if-statement 'if ( ...=AFL_OP_OK)' by 'if (1)'.

If you succeed, please mail may the exact version string of your drive and

the code modifications, you have made together with a short explanation.

If you don't succeed, you may mail me the output of the debugging messages.

But remember, they are only useful, if they are exact and complete and you

describe in detail your hardware setup and what you did (cold/warm reboot,

with/without DOS, DOS-driver started/not started, which Linux-commands etc.)

9. TECHNICAL HISTORY OF THE DRIVER

The AZTECH-Driver is a rework of the Mitsumi-Driver. Four major items had to

be reworked:

a) The Mitsumi drive does issue complete status information acknowledging

each command, the Aztech drive does only signal that the command was

processed. So whenever the complete status information is needed, an extra

ACMD_GET_STATUS command is issued. The handshake procedure for the drive

can be found in the functions aztSendCmd(), sendAztCmd() and getAztStatus().

b) The Aztech Drive does not have a ACMD_GET_DISK_INFO command, so the

necessary info about the number of tracks (firstTrack, lastTrack), disk

length etc. has to be read from the TOC in the lead in track (see function

aztGetDiskInfo()).

c) Whenever data is read from the drive, the Mitsumi drive is started with a

command to read an indefinite (0xffffff) number of sectors. When the appropriate

number of sectors is read, the drive is stopped by a ACDM_STOP command. This

does not work with the Aztech drive. I did not find a way to stop it. The

stop and pause commands do only work in AUDIO mode but not in DATA mode.

Therefore I had to modify the 'finite state machine' in function azt_poll to

only read a certain number of sectors and then start a new read on demand. As I

have not completely understood, how the buffer/caching scheme of the Mitsumi

driver was implemented, I am not sure, if I have covered all cases correctly,

whenever you get timeout messages, the bug is most likely to be in that

function azt_poll() around switch(cmd) .... case ACD_S_DATA.

d) I did not get information about changing drive mode. So I doubt, that the

code around function azt_poll() case AZT_S_MODE does work. In my test I have

not been able to switch to reading in raw mode. For reading raw mode, Aztech

uses a different command than for cooked mode, which I only have implemen-

ted in the ioctl-section but not in the section which is used by the ISO9660-

The driver was developed on an AST PC with Intel 486/DX2, 8MB RAM, 340MB IDE

hard disk and on an AST PC with Intel Pentium 60MHz, 16MB RAM, 520MB IDE

running Linux kernel version 1.0.9 from the LST 1.8 Distribution. The kernel

was compiled with gcc.2.5.8. My CD-ROM drive is an Aztech CDA268-01A. My

drive says, that it has Firmware Version AZT26801A1.3. It came with a ISA-bus

interface card and works with polled I/O without DMA and without interrupts.

The code for all other drives was 'remote' tested and debugged by a number of

volunteers on the Internet.

Points, where I feel that possible problems might be and all points where I

did not completely understand the drive's behaviour or trust my own code are

marked with /*???*/ in the source code. There are also some parts in the

Mitsumi driver, where I did not completely understand their code.

10. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Without the help of P.Bush, Aztech, who delivered technical information

about the Aztech Drive and without the help of E.Moenkeberg, GWDG, who did a

great job in analyzing the command structure of various CD-ROM drives, this

work would not have been possible. E.Moenkeberg was also a great help in

making the software 'kernel ready' and in answering many of the CDROM-related

questions in the newsgroups. He really is *the* Linux CD-ROM guru. Thanks

also to all the guys on the Internet, who collected valuable technical

information about CDROMs.

Joe Nardone (joe@access.digex.net) was a patient tester even for my first

trial, which was more than slow, and made suggestions for code improvement.

Especially the 'finite state machine' azt_poll() was rewritten by Joe to get

clean C code and avoid the ugly 'gotos', which I copied from mcd.c.

Robby Schirmer (schirmer@fmi.uni-passau.de) tested the audio stuff (ioctls)

and suggested a lot of patches for them.

Joseph Piskor and Peter Nugent were the first users with the ORCHID CD3110

and also were very patient with the problems which occurred.

Reinhard Max delivered the information for the CDROM-interface of the

SoundWave32 soundcards.

Jochen Kunz and Olaf Kaluza delivered the information for supporting Conrad's

TXC drive.

Hilmar Berger delivered the patches for supporting CyCDROM CR520ie.

Anybody, who is interested in these items should have a look at 'ftp.gwdg.de',

directory 'pub/linux/cdrom' and at 'ftp.cdrom.com', directory 'pub/cdrom'.

11. PROGRAMMING ADD ONs: cdplay.c

You can use the ioctl-functions included in aztcd.c in your own programs. As

an example on how to do this, you will find a tiny CD Player for audio CDs

named 'cdplay.c'. It allows you to play audio CDs. You can play a specified

track, pause and resume or skip tracks forward and backwards. If you quit the

program without stopping the  drive, playing is continued. You can also

(mis)use cdplay to read and hexdump data disks. You can find the code in the

APPENDIX of this file, which you should cut out with an editor and store in a

separate file 'cdplay.c'. To compile it and make it executable, do

  gcc -s -Wall -O2 -L/usr/lib cdplay.c -o /usr/local/bin/cdplay # compiles it

  chmod +755 /usr/local/bin/cdplay                              # makes it executable

  ln -s /dev/aztcd0 /dev/cdrom                                  # creates a link

   (for /usr/lib substitute the top level directory, where your include files

    reside,  and for /usr/local/bin the directory, where you want the executable

    binary to reside )

You have to set the correct permissions for cdplay *and* for /dev/mcd0 or

/dev/aztcd0 in order to use it. Remember, that you should not have /dev/cdrom

mounted, when you're playing audio CDs.

This program is just a hack for testing the ioctl-functions in aztcd.c, I will

not maintain it, so if you run into problems, discard it or have a look into

the source code 'cdplay.c'. The program does only contain a minimum of user

protection and input error detection. If you use the commands in the wrong

order or if you try to read a CD at wrong addresses, you may get error messages

or even hang your machine. If you get STEN_LOW, STEN_LOW_WAIT or segment violation

error messages when using cdplay, after that, the system might not be stable

any more, so you'd better reboot. As the ioctl-functions run in kernel mode,

most normal Linux-multitasking protection features do not work. By using

uninitialized 'wild' pointers etc., it is easy to write to other users data and

program areas, destroy kernel tables etc.. So if you experiment with ioctls

as always when you are doing systems programming and kernel hacking, you

should have a backup copy of your system in a safe place (and you also

should try before, how to restore from a backup copy)!

A reworked and improved version called 'cdtester.c', which has yet more

features for testing CDROM-drives can be found in

/usr/src/linux/Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd, written by E.Moenkeberg.

Werner Zimmermann

Fachhochschule fuer Technik Esslingen

(EMail: zimmerma@rz.fht-esslingen.de)

Maerz 16, 1995

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APPENDIX: Source code of cdplay.c

/* Tiny Audio CD Player

   Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996 Werner Zimmermann (zimmerma@rz.fht-esslingen.de)

This program originally was written to test the audio functions of the

AZTECH.CDROM-driver, but it should work with every CD-ROM drive. Before

using it, you should set a symlink from /dev/cdrom to your real CDROM

device.

The GNU General Public License applies to this program.

History:  V0.1  W.Zimmermann: First release. Nov. 8, 1994

          V0.2  W.Zimmermann: Enhanced functionality. Nov. 9, 1994

          V0.3  W.Zimmermann: Additional functions. Nov. 28, 1994

          V0.4  W.Zimmermann: fixed some bugs. Dec. 17, 1994

          V0.5  W.Zimmermann: clean 'scanf' commands without compiler warnings

                              Jan. 6, 1995

          V0.6  W.Zimmermann: volume control (still experimental). Jan. 24, 1995

          V0.7  W.Zimmermann: read raw modified. July 26, 95

*/

#include 

#include 

#include 

#include 

#include 

#include 

#include 

#include 

void help(void)

{ printf("Available Commands:  STOP         s      EJECT/CLOSE  e       QUIT         q\n");

  printf("                     PLAY TRACK   t      PAUSE        p       RESUME       r\n");

  printf("                     NEXT TRACK   n      REPEAT LAST  l       HELP         h\n");

  printf("                     SUB CHANNEL  c      TRACK INFO   i       PLAY AT      a\n");

  printf("                     READ         d      READ RAW     w       VOLUME       v\n");

}

int main(void)

{ int handle;

  unsigned char command=' ', ini=0, first=1, last=1;

  unsigned int cmd, i,j,k, arg1,arg2,arg3;

  struct cdrom_ti       ti;

  struct cdrom_tochdr   tocHdr;

  struct cdrom_subchnl  subchnl;

  struct cdrom_tocentry entry;

  struct cdrom_msf      msf;

  union  { struct cdrom_msf msf;

           unsigned char buf[CD_FRAMESIZE_RAW];

         } azt;

  struct cdrom_volctrl  volctrl;

  printf("\nMini-Audio CD-Player V0.72   (C) 1994,1995,1996  W.Zimmermann\n");

  handle=open("/dev/cdrom",O_RDWR);

  ioctl(handle,CDROMRESUME);

  if (handle<=0)

    { printf("Drive Error: already playing, no audio disk, door open\n");

      printf("             or no permission (you must be ROOT in order to use this program)\n");

    }

  else

    { help();

      while (1)

        { printf("Type command (h = help):  ");

          scanf("%s",&command);

          switch (command)

            { case 'e':   cmd=CDROMEJECT;

                          ioctl(handle,cmd);

                          break;

              case 'p':   if (!ini)

                             { printf("Command not allowed - play track first\n");

                             }

                          else

                             { cmd=CDROMPAUSE;

                               if (ioctl(handle,cmd)) printf("Drive Error\n");

                             }

                          break;

              case 'r':   if (!ini)

                             { printf("Command not allowed - play track first\n");

                             }

                          else

                             { cmd=CDROMRESUME;

                               if (ioctl(handle,cmd)) printf("Drive Error\n");

                             }

                          break;

              case 's':   cmd=CDROMPAUSE;

                          if (ioctl(handle,cmd)) printf("Drive error or already stopped\n");

                          cmd=CDROMSTOP;

                          if (ioctl(handle,cmd)) printf("Drive error\n");

                          break;

              case 't':   cmd=CDROMREADTOCHDR;

                          if (ioctl(handle,cmd,&tocHdr)) printf("Drive Error\n");

                          first=tocHdr.cdth_trk0;

                          last= tocHdr.cdth_trk1;

                          if ((first==0)||(first>last))

                            { printf ("--could not read TOC\n");

                            }

                          else

                            { printf("--first track: %d   --last track: %d   --enter track number: ",first,last);

                              cmd=CDROMPLAYTRKIND;

                              scanf("%i",&arg1);

                              ti.cdti_trk0=arg1;

                              if (ti.cdti_trk0

                              if (ti.cdti_trk0>last)  ti.cdti_trk0=last;

                              ti.cdti_ind0=0;

                              ti.cdti_trk1=last;

                              ti.cdti_ind1=0;

                              if (ioctl(handle,cmd,&ti)) printf("Drive Error\n");

                              ini=1;

                            }

                          break;

              case 'n':   if (!ini++)

                            { if (ioctl(handle,CDROMREADTOCHDR,&tocHdr)) printf("Drive Error\n");

                              first=tocHdr.cdth_trk0;

                              last= tocHdr.cdth_trk1;

                              ti.cdti_trk0=first-1;

                            }

                          if ((first==0)||(first>last))

                            { printf ("--could not read TOC\n");

                            }

                          else

                            { cmd=CDROMPLAYTRKIND;

                              if (++ti.cdti_trk0 > last)  ti.cdti_trk0=last;

                              ti.cdti_ind0=0;

                              ti.cdti_trk1=last;

                              ti.cdti_ind1=0;

                              if (ioctl(handle,cmd,&ti)) printf("Drive Error\n");

                              ini=1;

                            }

                          break;

              case 'l':   if (!ini++)

                            { if (ioctl(handle,CDROMREADTOCHDR,&tocHdr)) printf("Drive Error\n");

                              first=tocHdr.cdth_trk0;

                              last= tocHdr.cdth_trk1;

                              ti.cdti_trk0=first+1;

                            }

                          if ((first==0)||(first>last))

                            { printf ("--could not read TOC\n");

                            }

                          else

                            { cmd=CDROMPLAYTRKIND;

                              if (--ti.cdti_trk0 < first) ti.cdti_trk0=first;

                              ti.cdti_ind0=0;

                              ti.cdti_trk1=last;

                              ti.cdti_ind1=0;

                              if (ioctl(handle,cmd,&ti)) printf("Drive Error\n");

                              ini=1;

                            }

                          break;

              case 'c':   subchnl.cdsc_format=CDROM_MSF;

                          if (ioctl(handle,CDROMSUBCHNL,&subchnl))

                            printf("Drive Error\n");

                          else

                            { printf("AudioStatus:%s   Track:%d  Mode:%d   MSF=%d:%d:%d\n", \

                              subchnl.cdsc_audiostatus==CDROM_AUDIO_PLAY ? "PLAYING":"NOT PLAYING",\

                              subchnl.cdsc_trk,subchnl.cdsc_adr, \

                              subchnl.cdsc_absaddr.msf.minute, subchnl.cdsc_absaddr.msf.second, \

                              subchnl.cdsc_absaddr.msf.frame);

                            }

                          break;

              case 'i':   if (!ini)

                            { printf("Command not allowed - play track first\n");

                            }

                          else

                            { cmd=CDROMREADTOCENTRY;

                              printf("Track No.: ");

                              scanf("%d",&arg1);

                              entry.cdte_track=arg1;

                              if (entry.cdte_track

                              if (entry.cdte_track>last)  entry.cdte_track=last;

                              entry.cdte_format=CDROM_MSF;

                              if (ioctl(handle,cmd,&entry))

                               { printf("Drive error or invalid track no.\n");

                               }

                              else

                               { printf("Mode %d Track, starts at %d:%d:%d\n", \

                               entry.cdte_adr,entry.cdte_addr.msf.minute, \

                               entry.cdte_addr.msf.second,entry.cdte_addr.msf.frame);

                               }

                            }

                          break;

              case 'a':   cmd=CDROMPLAYMSF;

                          printf("Address (min:sec:frame)  ");

                          scanf("%d:%d:%d",&arg1,&arg2,&arg3);

                          msf.cdmsf_min0  =arg1;

                          msf.cdmsf_sec0  =arg2;

                          msf.cdmsf_frame0=arg3;

                          if (msf.cdmsf_sec0  > 59) msf.cdmsf_sec0  =59;

                          if (msf.cdmsf_frame0> 74) msf.cdmsf_frame0=74;

                          msf.cdmsf_min1=60;

                          msf.cdmsf_sec1=00;

                          msf.cdmsf_frame1=00;

                          if (ioctl(handle,cmd,&msf))

                           { printf("Drive error or invalid address\n");

                           }

                          break;

#ifdef AZT_PRIVATE_IOCTLS /*not supported by every CDROM driver*/

              case 'd':   cmd=CDROMREADCOOKED;

                          printf("Address (min:sec:frame)  ");

                          scanf("%d:%d:%d",&arg1,&arg2,&arg3);

                          azt.msf.cdmsf_min0  =arg1;

                          azt.msf.cdmsf_sec0  =arg2;

                          azt.msf.cdmsf_frame0=arg3;

                          if (azt.msf.cdmsf_sec0  > 59) azt.msf.cdmsf_sec0  =59;

                          if (azt.msf.cdmsf_frame0> 74) azt.msf.cdmsf_frame0=74;

                          if (ioctl(handle,cmd,&azt.msf))

                           { printf("Drive error, invalid address or unsupported command\n");

                           }

                          k=0;

                          getchar();

                          for (i=0;i<128;i++)

                           { printf("%4d:",i*16);

                             for (j=0;j<16;j++)

                               { printf("%2x ",azt.buf[i*16+j]);

                               }

                             for (j=0;j<16;j++)

                               { if (isalnum(azt.buf[i*16+j]))

                                   printf("%c",azt.buf[i*16+j]);

                                 else

                                   printf(".");

                               }

                             printf("\n");

                             k++;

                             if (k>=20)

                              { printf("press ENTER to continue\n");

                                getchar();

                                k=0;

                              }

                           }

                          break;

              case 'w':   cmd=CDROMREADRAW;

                          printf("Address (min:sec:frame)  ");

                          scanf("%d:%d:%d",&arg1,&arg2,&arg3);

                          azt.msf.cdmsf_min0  =arg1;

                          azt.msf.cdmsf_sec0  =arg2;

                          azt.msf.cdmsf_frame0=arg3;

                          if (azt.msf.cdmsf_sec0  > 59) azt.msf.cdmsf_sec0  =59;

                          if (azt.msf.cdmsf_frame0> 74) azt.msf.cdmsf_frame0=74;

                          if (ioctl(handle,cmd,&azt))

                           { printf("Drive error, invalid address or unsupported command\n");

                           }

                          k=0;

                          for (i=0;i<147;i++)

                           { printf("%4d:",i*16);

                             for (j=0;j<16;j++)

                               { printf("%2x ",azt.buf[i*16+j]);

                               }

                             for (j=0;j<16;j++)

                               { if (isalnum(azt.buf[i*16+j]))

                                   printf("%c",azt.buf[i*16+j]);

                                 else

                                   printf(".");

                               }

                             printf("\n");

                             k++;

                             if (k>=20)

                              { getchar();

                                k=0;

                              }

                           }

                          break;

#endif

              case 'v':   cmd=CDROMVOLCTRL;

                          printf("--Channel 0 Left  (0-255): ");

                          scanf("%d",&arg1);

                          printf("--Channel 1 Right (0-255): ");

                          scanf("%d",&arg2);

                          volctrl.channel0=arg1;

                          volctrl.channel1=arg2;

                          volctrl.channel2=0;

                          volctrl.channel3=0;

                          if (ioctl(handle,cmd,&volctrl))

                           { printf("Drive error or unsupported command\n");

                           }

                          break;

              case 'q':   if (close(handle)) printf("Drive Error: CLOSE\n");

                          exit(0);

              case 'h':   help();

                          break;

              default:    printf("unknown command\n");

                          break;

            }

       }

    }

  return 0;

}