cdrom drive: reading data directly from it

[Charlie Kilpatrick]

hi there,

i'm wondering if someone could post code (or a pointer to some) that shows how
to read data directly off the cdrom drive. i'm using win95, visual c++ 5.0,
pentium.

any help appreciated. please email,

charlie

[Erik H Gawtry]

If you have an IDE CD, give up, I have yet to see a completely successful
Win32 IDE CD read. Otherwise, for a SCSI CD, just search the net for CDDA.
There are literally hundreds of sample programs out there. You need to
use WinASPI and do a CDDA Read6, Read10, or Read12, depending on your CD
manufacturer.

-Erik

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[Tong Shen]

Actually you CAN use ASPI to send command to IDE CD-ROM. ATAPI command set
is a subset of SCSI and the IDE CD-ROM driver is a SCSI class driver. Of
course, the driver/device may not support all of READ6, READ10 and READ12.

Tong

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