> On 6/8/2015 7:27 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: >> For printers its usually easy to find the control commands but >> for cd units I've never seen them made available to the public. >> Is there a command list published anywhere for cds. >> > Yes, it's called ATAPI and there exist a lot of different documents for > the different classes of ATAPI devices. The only non-ATAPI CD-ROM drives > that I am aware of are/were those of some early Creative > soundcard/CD-ROM drive combos. Those used their own subset of ATAPI > commands, hence a more standard CD-ROM driver won't work, as well had > their own digital audio connector that made those CD-ROM drives only > work with their bundled sound cards and vice versa...
> The catch with the documentation however is that this is stuff that you > have to buy from t13.org, the committee that defined those standards... googling 'ATAPI specification' turned up www.bswd.com/sff8020i.pdf at position 2. there are MANY other links containing the ATAPI spec. even you old time DOS guys should start to use a search engine instead of asking such (easy answered) questions on mailing lists. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
