External USB DVD drive

ianhay · Post by **ianhay** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 18:44

I expected to be able to play DVD's from an external USB drive, but this doesn't seem to work at all on my P1 (despite the salesman saying it would). Has anyone managed to do this? My DVD drive is a Liteon LH-20A1HX.

tonymy01 · Post by **tonymy01** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 18:58

It only supports mounting drives as mass storage. Plugging in USB DVD drives is never going to work. It reads DVD *images* from external HDDs.
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peteru · Post by **peteru** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 19:26

If Beyonwiz comply with the GPL and release the kernel source code, it should be possible to add ATAPI over USB support so that external drives can be used.

tonymy01 · Post by **tonymy01** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 19:31

But what about CSS and RCE (and RPC-2 drives?)
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peteru · Post by **peteru** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 19:41

Linux doesn't care about such things.

tonymy01 · Post by **tonymy01** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 19:46

Ooh, thanks for that. I guess one day I should make a primary computer of mine a linux one, so I can see what it really has to offer! At the moment I run it in ssh/telnet shells essentially, so anything multimedia based is on XP, my Nokia N95 or my Wiz

External USB DVD drive

External USB DVD drive

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