I looked for books never found any. Didn't know what to search for. There are large books filled with printer commands and how to use them. Nothing for cd commands. There use to be books for modem commands really scarce now.
cheers DS On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 20:41:37 +0200 Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> writes: > > > 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 > ____________________________________________________________ > Protect what matters > Floods can happen anywhere. Learn your risk and find an agent today. > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3165/5576e608ef9096608265amp08duc > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
