Xbox DVD drive to be used on a PC Linux machine

viper1024768 · Post by **viper1024768** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:51 am

Hi All,

Just having this thought, my PC is running Mandrake 9.2 and I don't have a DVD drive. I am just thinking whether it is possible for the Xbox's DVD drive be mounted somehow and I can use it to watch DVD movies on my PC using the Xbox's DVD drive. Possible? Any tips on how to?

Thanks in advance.

antiflag6 · Post by **antiflag6** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 9:23 pm

xbox dvd drve isnt too good n my opinion..

try http://www.newegg.com for some great deals on hardware and software

nobspangle · Post by **nobspangle** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:18 pm

seems like a strange way round to do things use an xbox which function as a DVD player to act as a file server so you can watch DVD on a PC.

Watching DVDs without copy protection would be fairly easy, just mount the DVD drive in gentoox and share the mount point with samba, however this won't work for DVD with copy protection

viper1024768 · Post by **viper1024768** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:36 pm

Thank you for your answers again. So it is possible. would the command lines look like this ?

1. mount /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom <-- would this work, do I call the DVD drive hdb?
2. do I need to do anything in lilo.conf ? if I want it to be mounted evertime I start gentooX
3. can I do a share in command line? how to?

On my PC side (running Mandrake) I have mapped the drives (via linuxneighbourhood...something like that) and can see xbox's c,d,e,f, and root. But I cannot see the contenet of d (i.e. the dvd drive), c and e OK. All this is without doing a mount on the dvd, I thought it was mounted by default, as in Mandrake 9.2.

any pointers.

thanks again

nobspangle · Post by **nobspangle** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 8:17 am

your DVD drive is /dev/hdb but I would use /dev/cdrom as this keeps it nice and tidy.

You can't automatically mount the drive at start up because there won't be a disc in it. There should already be an entry in fstab so you can mount it with
mount /dev/cdrom

you will need to add a share in samba so you can see the drive something like

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[DVD]
path = /mnt/cdrom
writeable =  no

viper1024768 · Post by **viper1024768** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:07 am

thanks again, will try once I get home.

viper1024768 · Post by **viper1024768** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 3:00 am

Hi

Tried it.... but no go.

I think I need to take a step backwards here. I placed a known (good) CDROM disc that can be read by my samsung DVD drive (via XBMP), and opened up konqueror, went to mnt/cdrom and I could NOT see any files in it. This leads me to think that for some reason the drive isn't able to read the contents? I did a : mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom and it returned an error saying no medium found....

I must be doing something wrong.... We ARE suppose to be able to use the DVD drive in gentooX to read data isn't it? I don't know what could be the problem.

Any help here pls.

TIA

nobspangle · Post by **nobspangle** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 8:19 am

try "mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom"
if that doesn't work try "mount /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom"

viper1024768 · Post by **viper1024768** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 9:23 am

Hi again,

Thanks again SO much, appreciate your patience. Yes it worked, i.e. mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom

any explaination why we needed the cdroms/cdrom0 part ?

Thanks again.

nobspangle · Post by **nobspangle** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:01 pm

you probably don't have a symlink from /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 to /dev/cdrom you can make one by doing

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ln -sf /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /dev/cdrom

viper1024768 · Post by **viper1024768** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 4:40 am

thanks again.