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CD(4)			     Kernel Interfaces Manual			   CD(4)

NAME
     cd -- SCSI CD-ROM driver

SYNOPSIS
     device cd
     device cd1 at scbus0 target 4 unit 0
     options "CHANGER_MIN_BUSY_SECONDS=3"
     options "CHANGER_MAX_BUSY_SECONDS=11"

DESCRIPTION
     The  cd  driver  provides support for a SCSI CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read Only
     Memory) drive.  In an attempt to look like a regular disk,  the  cd  driver
     synthesizes  a  partition	table,	with  one  partition covering the entire
     CD-ROM.  It is possible to modify this partition table using  disklabel(8),
     but it will only last until the CD-ROM is unmounted.  In general the inter-
     faces are similar to those described by ad(4) and da(4).

     As  the SCSI adapter is probed during boot, the SCSI bus is scanned for de-
     vices.  Any devices found which answer as CDROM (type 5) or WORM  (type  4)
     type  devices  will  be `attached' to the cd driver.  Prior to FreeBSD 2.1,
     the first device found will be attached as cd0 the next, cd1, etc.   Begin-
     ning  in FreeBSD 2.1 it is possible to specify what cd unit a device should
     come on line as; refer to scsi(4) for details on kernel configuration.

     The system utility disklabel(8) may be used to read  the  synthesized  disk
     label  structure,	which  will  contain correct figures for the size of the
     CD-ROM should that information be required.

KERNEL CONFIGURATION
     Any number of CD-ROM devices may be attached to the  system  regardless  of
     system configuration as all resources are dynamically allocated.

IOCTLS
     The  following ioctl(2) calls which apply to SCSI CD-ROM drives are defined
     in the header files <sys/cdio.h> and <sys/disklabel.h>.

     DIOCGDINFO

     DIOCSDINFO 	  (struct disklabel) Read or write the in-core	copy  of
			  the  disklabel  for  the drive.  The disklabel is ini-
			  tialized with information read from the  scsi  inquiry
			  commands,  and  should  be the same as the information
			  printed at boot.  This structure is defined in diskla-
			  bel(5).

     CDIOCCAPABILITY	  (struct ioc_capability) Retrieve information from  the
			  drive  on  what features it supports.  The information
			  is returned in the following structure:

				struct ioc_capability {
					u_long	play_function;
				#define CDDOPLAYTRK	0x00000001
					/* Can play tracks/index */
				#define CDDOPLAYMSF	0x00000002
					/* Can play msf to msf */
				#define CDDOPLAYBLOCKS	0x00000004
					/* Can play range of blocks */
				#define CDDOPAUSE	0x00000100
					/* Output can be paused */
				#define CDDORESUME	0x00000200
					/* Output can be resumed */
				#define CDDORESET	0x00000400
					/* Drive can be completely reset */
				#define CDDOSTART	0x00000800
					/* Audio can be started */
				#define CDDOSTOP	0x00001000
					/* Audio can be stopped */
				#define CDDOPITCH	0x00002000
					/* Audio pitch can be changed */

					u_long	routing_function;
				#define CDREADVOLUME	0x00000001
					/* Volume settings can be read */
				#define CDSETVOLUME	0x00000002
					/* Volume settings can be set */
				#define CDSETMONO	0x00000100
					/* Output can be set to mono */
				#define CDSETSTEREO	0x00000200
					/* Output can be set to stereo (def) */
				#define CDSETLEFT	0x00000400
					/* Output can be set to left only */
				#define CDSETRIGHT	0x00000800
					/* Output can be set to right only */
				#define CDSETMUTE	0x00001000
					/* Output can be muted */
				#define CDSETPATCH	0x00008000
					/* Direct routing control allowed */

					u_long	special_function;
				#define CDDOEJECT	0x00000001
					/* The tray can be opened */
				#define CDDOCLOSE	0x00000002
					/* The tray can be closed */
				#define CDDOLOCK	0x00000004
					/* The tray can be locked */
				#define CDREADHEADER	0x00000100
					/* Can read Table of Contents */
				#define CDREADENTRIES	0x00000200
					/* Can read TOC Entries */
				#define CDREADSUBQ	0x00000200
					/* Can read Subchannel info */
				#define CDREADRW	0x00000400
					/* Can read subcodes R-W */
				#define CDHASDEBUG	0x00004000
					/* The tray has dynamic debugging */
				};

     CDIOCPLAYTRACKS	  (struct ioc_play_track) Start audio playback	given  a
			  track address and length.  The structure is defined as
			  follows:

				struct ioc_play_track
				{
					u_char	start_track;
					u_char	start_index;
					u_char	end_track;
					u_char	end_index;
				};

     CDIOCPLAYBLOCKS	  (struct  ioc_play_blocks) Start audio playback given a
			  block address and length.  The structure is defined as
			  follows:

				struct ioc_play_blocks
				{
					int	blk;
					int	len;
				};

     CDIOCPLAYMSF	  (struct ioc_play_msf) Start  audio  playback	given  a
			  `minutes-seconds-frames'   address  and  length.   The
			  structure is defined as follows:

				struct ioc_play_msf
				{
					u_char	start_m;
					u_char	start_s;
					u_char	start_f;
					u_char	end_m;
					u_char	end_s;
					u_char	end_f;
				};

     CDIOCREADSUBCHANNEL  (struct ioc_read_subchannel) Read information from the
			  subchannel at the location specified	by  this  struc-
			  ture:

				struct ioc_read_subchannel {
					u_char address_format;
				#define CD_LBA_FORMAT	1
				#define CD_MSF_FORMAT	2
					u_char data_format;
				#define CD_SUBQ_DATA		0
				#define CD_CURRENT_POSITION	1
				#define CD_MEDIA_CATALOG	2
				#define CD_TRACK_INFO		3
					u_char track;
					int	data_len;
					struct	cd_sub_channel_info *data;
				};

     CDIOREADTOCHEADER	  (struct  ioc_toc_header)  Return  summary  information
			  about the table of contents for  the	mounted  CD-ROM.
			  The  information is returned into the following struc-
			  ture:

				struct ioc_toc_header {
					u_short len;
					u_char	starting_track;
					u_char	ending_track;
				};

     CDIOREADTOCENTRYS	  (struct ioc_read_toc_entry)  Return  information  from
			  the  table  of contents entries mentioned.  (Yes, this
			  command name is misspelled.)	The  argument  structure
			  is defined as follows:

				struct ioc_read_toc_entry {
					u_char	address_format;
					u_char	starting_track;
					u_short data_len;
					struct	cd_toc_entry *data;
				};
			  The  requested  data	is  written into an area of size
			  data_len and pointed to by data.

     CDIOCSETPATCH	  (struct ioc_patch) Attach various  audio  channels  to
			  various  output  channels.   The argument structure is
			  defined thusly:

				struct ioc_patch {
					u_char	patch[4];
					/* one for each channel */
				};

     CDIOCGETVOL

     CDIOCSETVOL	  (struct ioc_vol) Get (set) information about the  vol-
			  ume  settings  of  the  output channels.  The argument
			  structure is as follows:

				struct	ioc_vol
				{
					u_char	vol[4];
					/* one for each channel */
				};

     CDIOCSETMONO	  Patch all output channels to all source channels.

     CDIOCSETSTEREO	  Patch left source channel to the left  output  channel
			  and the right source channel to the right output chan-
			  nel.

     CDIOCSETMUTE	  Mute output without changing the volume settings.

     CDIOCSETLEFT

     CDIOCSETRIGHT	  Attach both output channels to the left (right) source
			  channel.

     CDIOCSETDEBUG

     CDIOCCLRDEBUG	  Turn on (off) debugging for the appropriate device.

     CDIOCPAUSE

     CDIOCRESUME	  Pause (resume) audio play, without resetting the loca-
			  tion of the read-head.

     CDIOCRESET 	  Reset the drive.

     CDIOCSTART

     CDIOCSTOP		  Tell the drive to spin-up (-down) the CD-ROM.

     CDIOCALLOW

     CDIOCPREVENT	  Tell	the  drive to allow (prevent) manual ejection of
			  the CD-ROM disc.  Not all drives support this feature.

     CDIOCEJECT 	  Eject the CD-ROM.

     CDIOCCLOSE 	  Tell the drive to close its door and load  the  media.
			  Not all drives support this feature.

     CDIOCPITCH 	  (struct  ioc_pitch)  For  drives that support it, this
			  command instructs the drive to play  the  audio  at  a
			  faster  or  slower  rate than normal.  Values of speed
			  between -32767 and -1 result	in  slower  playback;  a
			  zero	value  indicates normal speed; and values from 1
			  to 32767 give faster playback.  Drives with less  than
			  16  bits  of resolution will silently ignore less-sig-
			  nificant bits.  The structure is defined thusly:

				struct	ioc_pitch
				{
					short	speed;
				};

NOTES
     When a CD-ROM is changed in a drive controlled by the cd driver,  then  the
     act  of  changing	the  media will invalidate the disklabel and information
     held within the kernel.  To stop corruption, all  accesses  to  the  device
     will be discarded until there are no more open file descriptors referencing
     the  device.   During  this period, all new open attempts will be rejected.
     When no more open file descriptors reference the  device,	the  first  next
     open will load a new set of parameters (including disklabel) for the drive.

     The  audio  code  in  the cd driver only support SCSI-2 standard audio com-
     mands.  Because many CD-ROM manufacturers have not followed  the  standard,
     there  are  many CD-ROM drives for which audio will not work.  Some work is
     planned to support some of the more common `broken' CD-ROM drives; however,
     this is not yet under way.

CHANGER OPERATION
     This driver has built-in support for LUN-based CD changers.  A LUN-based CD
     changer is a drive that can hold two or more  CDs,  but  only  has  one  CD
     player mechanism.	Each CD in the drive shows up as a separate logical unit
     on  the  SCSI bus.  The cd driver automatically recognizes LUN-based chang-
     ers, and routes commands for changers through an internal	scheduler.   The
     scheduler prevents changer "thrashing", which is caused by sending commands
     to different LUNs in the changer at the same time.

     The  scheduler  honors minimum and maximum time quanta that the driver will
     spend on a particular LUN.  The minimum  time  is	the  guaranteed  minimum
     amount  of time that the driver will spend on a given LUN, even if there is
     no oustanding I/O for that LUN.  The maximum time is the maximum amount  of
     time  the	changer  will spend on a LUN if there is oustdanding I/O for an-
     other LUN.  If there is no outstanding I/O for another LUN, the driver will
     allow indefinite access to a given LUN.

     The minimum and maximum time quanta are configurable via kernel options and
     also via sysctl variables.  The kernel options are:

     options "CHANGER_MIN_BUSY_SECONDS=3"
     options "CHANGER_MAX_BUSY_SECONDS=11"

     The sysctl variables are:

     kern.cam.cd.changer.min_busy_seconds
     kern.cam.cd.changer.max_busy_seconds

     It is suggested that the user try experimenting with the minimum and  maxi-
     mum  timeouts  via  the sysctl variables to arrive at the proper values for
     your changer.  Once you have  settled  on	the  proper  timeouts  for  your
     changer, you can then put them in your kernel config file.

     If your system does have a LUN-based changer, you may notice that the probe
     messages  for the various LUNs of the changer will continue to appear while
     the boot process is going on.  This is normal, and is caused by the changer
     scheduling code.

FILES
     /dev/cd[0-9][a-h]	raw mode CD-ROM devices

DIAGNOSTICS
     None.

SEE ALSO
     da(4), scsi(4), disklabel(5), disklabel(8), cd(9)

BUGS
     The names of the structures used for the third  argument  to  ioctl()  were
     poorly  chosen,  and a number of spelling errors have survived in the names
     of the ioctl() commands.

     There is no mechanism currently to set different minimum and maximum  time-
     outs  for	different  CD changers; the timeout values set by the kernel op-
     tions or the sysctl variables apply to all LUN-based  CD  changers  in  the
     system.  It is possible to implement such support, but the sysctl impelmen-
     tation at least would be rather inelegant, because of the current inability
     of  the  sysctl  code  to	handle the addition of nodes after compile time.
     Thus, it would take one dynamically sized sysctl variable	and  a	userland
     utility to get/set the timeout values.  Implementation of separate timeouts
     for  different  CD  devices  in the kernel config file would likely require
     modification of config(8) to support the two timeouts  when  hardwiring  cd
     devices.

HISTORY
     This  cd  driver  is  based  upon the cd driver written by Julian Elischer,
     which appeared in 386BSD 0.1.  The CAM version of the cd driver was written
     by Kenneth Merry and first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.

FreeBSD 4.6			October 10, 1998			   CD(4)

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