On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 12:58:13PM -0500, Loren Burlingame wrote: > >most of the dvd playing apps are set by default to look for /dev/dvd and > >/dev/rdvd. You should be able to configure that or just make symlinks > >ln -sf /dev/hdd /dev/dvd > >ln -sf /dev/hdd /dev/rdvd > > you are correct sir. I was (once again) looking for an elephant with a > magnafying glass. No, he is not correct. There is someting else "raw" related to I/O in Linux. There is a "raw-io" capability in Linux that allows one to bypass the page/buffer/etc cache, to allow certain application (databases for example) to work on the "bare metal". See http://dvd.sourceforge.net/xine-howto/en_GB/html/howto-8.html for an example of how to setup them. florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020612/e063777e/attachment.pgp