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- From: gm78@dial.pipex.com (Matt Francis)
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- Subject: Re: Any info on reading or writing to CD-ROM?
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 20:32:57 GMT
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- ep@iist.unu.edu (Erwin Paguio) wrote:
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- >In article <sehari.827706428@eng3.iastate.edu>, sehari@iastate.edu (Babak $ehari) writes:
- >|> ----
- >|>
- >|> I am looking for a book or other informative material about reading
- >|> and writing tracks of a CD-ROM. Can I do it with BIOS only or do I
- >|> need DOS? Is it any different from reading and writing regular floppy
- >|> or hard disks?!
- >|>
- >|> I Like to do this in C or C++, if there is any good library that can
- >|> read or write sectors/tracks of CD-ROM. If that is not
- >|> possible, I like to know about BIOS INT or DOS INT that does this.
- >|>
- >|> Any good assembly books that talks about this subject?
- >|>
- >|> With highest regards,
- >|> Babak Sehari.
- >|>
-
- >I suggest you look at the MSCDEX documentation. It discusses the ways on how to
- >read from a CDROM. As reagrds to writing to one, I don't have any idea -- but I
- >think your CDROM drive must support it before you can perfrom a write.
-
- You can't write to a CD-ROM. Just to remind, the RO part stands for
- "read-only". There is such a thing as a CD-ROM burner (for people with
- $many) which will write whole CDs at a time on special writeable
- blanks, but this is still write-once - you can't change it thereafter.
- [at a push, these will do multiple "sessions" on one CD, sequentially,
- but for technical reasons, you lose a number of megs per new "session"
- apart from whatever it is you want to write]. If you want to use one
- of these, I believe (being far too poor to own one myself!) that they
- generally need their own, proprietary software, which will probably be
- sold seperately to you for another $many.
-
- >YO!
- >--
- >Erwin D. Paguio
- >http://rh.iist.unu.edu/~ep/ydeeps.html
- >Pascal and ASM Enthusiast
-
- L8r.
- -Matt
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