CDopen(3dm)                                                        CDopen(3dm)



NAME
     CDopen - opens a CD-ROM drive for audio use

SYNOPSIS
     #include <sys/types.h>
     #include <dmedia/cdaudio.h>

     CDPLAYER* CDopen(char* dev, char* direction)

PARAMETER
     dev         The name of the devscsi file associated with the CD-ROM
                 device.  E.g.  /dev/scsi/sc0d4l0.  If dev is NULL, then
                 CDopen(3dm) will consult the hardware inventory table to
                 locate a CD-ROM drive.

     direction   A pointer to one of "r", "w", or "rw" indicating the
                 direction of the I/O desired.

RETURNED VALUE
     Upon successful completion, CDopen(3dm) returns a pointer to a CDPLAYER,
     an opaque type defined in cdaudio.h. Otherwise a value of null (0) is
     returned and errno is set to indicate the error.

DESCRIPTION
     CDopen(3dm) opens the devscsi device associated with the CD-ROM and
     determines if the device is a recognized type of CD-ROM drive.
     Recognized devices are Sony and Toshiba. If it is successful it allocates
     and initializes a CDPLAYER structure for the device and returns a pointer
     to it.  You use this structure in all function calls that access the CD-
     ROM.

     The device is opened for reading, writing, or reading and writing
     according to the direction argument.  Currently only reading is
     supported.  This argument provides a path forward toward writable CD's.
     CDopen(3dm) also attempts to select the CD-ROM mode that enables transfer
     of audio data from audio CD's across the SCSI bus.  Only the Toshiba CD-
     ROM supports this feature.  The scsi_audio flag is set in the CDSTATUS
     structure [see CDgetstatus(3dm)] to indicate whether the mode was
     successfully selected.  The opened CD-ROM can be used as a player
     regardless of the success or failure of this operation.

     CDopen(3dm) will fail and no CDPLAYER structure will be created if one or
     more of the following are true:


     [ENODEV]       No CD-ROM device could be found.

     [ENODEV]       The device didn't respond to an inquiry request.

     [ENODEV]       The CD-ROM was of an unrecognized type.





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CDopen(3dm)                                                        CDopen(3dm)



     [ENOMEM]       The malloc(3) call to acquire memory for the CDPLAYER
                    structure failed.

     [EBUSY]        The CD-ROM device was busy.


SEE ALSO
     CDintro(3dm), CDclose(3dm), CDgetstatus(3dm), CDgettrackinfo(3dm),
     CDeject(3dm), CDreadda(3dm), CDseek(3dm), CDstop(3dm),
     CDtogglepause(3dm), CDallowremoval(3dm), CDpreventremoval(3dm),
     CDseek(3dm), CDseektrack(3dm), CDseekblock(3dm), CDplay(3dm),
     CDplayabs(3dm), CDplaytrack(3dm), CDplaytrackabs(3dm),


AUTHOR
     Roger Chickering, Mark Callow







































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