<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Erik Jensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eriksjunk@laurelwoodart.com">eriksjunk@laurelwoodart.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I am currently driving my projector from an ION system in a rather<br>
inaccessible location. I would like to be able to pop a DVD into the<br>
drive of another computer and play it on the front end with minimal<br>
fuss. The closest I have gotten is using NBD (network block device),<br>
but playing a DVD is still rather complicated (insert dvd, play dvd<br>
locally with mplayer to unlock the drive, connect NBD, play DVD,<br>
disconnect NBD, eject dvd). What would be ideal would be a way to<br>
forward raw ATA commands over the network, allowing the front end to<br>
unlock the drive, eject the disc, etc. Does anyone know of a utility<br>
that would allow me to accomplish this?<font color="#888888"><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank"></a><br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>If you haven't already got something working with one of the other solutions presented, you could look into this:<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA_over_Ethernet">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA_over_Ethernet</a><br>
<br>It does more or less just what you were looking to do by encapsulating the raw ATA commands into ethernet packets and forwarding them across the network. It doesn't run on top of TCP/IP so it is a bit more limiting than iSCSI in that sense, but it is quite a bit simpler. It should give the appearance of the optical drive being connected directly to the remote system once it is set up.<br>
<br>--Dave<br>