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- Short: Identifies CD-R/W media (brand, capacity)
- Uploader: avallino@diff.org (Andrea Vallinotto)
- Author: avallino@diff.org (Andrea Vallinotto)
- Type: disk/cdrom
- Version: 1.4
- Replaces: disk/cdrom/IdentCDR.lha
-
- This small tool checks the ATIP (Absolute Time In Pre-groove) of a CD-R/W media.
- Usually this area is used by CD-R/W manufacturers to encode their brand, and
- some other useful stuff, like type of media and minimum and maximum recording
- speed. (Not every CD-R/W has the last information, try and see).
- It also gives you some additional data, like maximum capacity of the CD-R/W,
- maximum allowed recording capacity (that is always a bit less than the first
- one), name of volume, publisher, software used for burning, etc...
-
- See the included documentation (IdentCDR.doc) for additional information!
-
- The information about ATIP encoding can be found at:
- http://www.world.sony.com/Electronics/CD-R/index.html
-
- If IdentCDR can't identify your support, please mail me the printed values.
- It should look like:
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- Brand unknown or no CD-R! Values are: M 97, S 29, F 55
-
- Version history:
-
- 1.4 Now prints some information about the volume name, creator and such of
- the first session; thanks to Andrzej Boreczko for some help and
- encouraging me.
- Can (and will) correctly disinguish between CD-R and CD-RW; thanks to
- Stephen White for hinting this. This feature will work on CD burners
- only, no CD-ROM.
- Added display on the titlewindow of how many slots are available.
- Added new entries: 60 slots, about 56-58 entries (= different brands),
- Fixed a typo in the entries database.
-
- 1.3 Some more entries: 54 slots, about 50 entries (TDK and Mitsubishi have
- two slots) .
- Reworked command-line interface.
- New commands (both from CLI and Workbench): DUMP and DEBUG.
- (actually, DEBUG was already there in 1.2, but it was hidden).
-
- 1.2 Added a small reqtools GUI.
- Added reading tooltypes from icon.
- Added recording length discovery/display.
- Now checks for 'prohibited' values. See the above URL for explanations.
- Finally found out how to get exec device informations from a volume
- specification (like CD1:). BPCL sucks!!!
- No longer displays obtained values on the Shell. Is this a problem for
- anyone ?
- Executable is indeed shorter than 1.1, because in 1.1 I linked some
- useless math libraries; IdentCDR is long about a tenth of the Windoze
- counterpart. But if anybody wants it, I can supply with a 300K version
- (18K of code and 282K of useless junk, just to make you happy).
- Really knows 41 brands, because FUJI uses two slots.
-
- 1.1 Fixed memory leak (46 bytes not freed).
- New method for those drives who can't use READ_TOC_PMA_ATIP.
- Some more sanity checks to ensure returned data is valid.
- Currently knows 42 brands (are these all ?).
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- 1.0 Initial release
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