This program will not be developed or improved any further. We've definitely stopped this project and discontinued CDR Identifier! Please do not send any EMail with questions related to CD recording or this product. You'll not get an answer! Dieses Programm wird nicht weiterentwickelt oder verbessert. Wir haben dieses Projekt definitv gestoppt und CDR Idnetifier abgekündigt! Bitte keine Mails mit Fragen zu diesem Programm oder CD Recording senden. Sie werden keine Antwort erhalten! Usage: After start the program tries to determine all accessible SCSI/IDE devices installed on your system. The devices are shown in a list. Furthermore the program tries to identify the recorder(s) in your system and selects it as device to read the ATIP from. A different device may be selected by clicking the device to select in the list. To read the ATIP/information from the media using the device selected just press the upper of the two buttons. To put the information into the clipboard just press the other button. The information for min. and max. recording speed is not available on many discs (e.g. Kodak)... most of the time you´ll just get an unknown min. and max. speed. This tool is freeware and may be distributed as it is. Commercial use is not allowed without written permission! Background information: This small tool was developed to read the ATIP from a CDR media using a CD recorder - right now there´s no CDROM reader that can do this (At least I don´t know of!). The ATIP tells who has manufactured the disc and what dye type they used. (The ATIP doesn´t tell the exact dye type - it just tells if the recording strategy to be used for this media is a "long strategy type" (e.g. Cyanine) or "short strategy type" (e.g. Phthalocyanine). The program should work with most current SCSI-3 compliant recorders. Unfortunately reading the ATIP from a CDR is specified as an optional command so not all recorders (e.g. TEAC 55S and older ones) do not support this feature. Furthermore there are some recorders that support reading the ATIP with so-called vendor-unique-commands, that means they support it by using commands that are unique to this device (e.g. Philips/HP recorders). Support for these devices might/will be added in one of the next versions... (I do not have very much information on these devices!) To use the program under Win95/98 there should be an ASPI manager installed on the system. The ASPI layer that ships with Win9x/ME is an old implementation from Adaptec and only works with SCSI drives (There´s a possibility to make it work with IDE drives, but I would not recommend doing that!) If you´ve got an IDE recorder connected to your Win95/98-System you should try to upgrade to a newer ASPI manager from Tekram´s website (URL: http://support.tekramusa.com/support2.nsf/view0/53E0E85676EF7DDB88256903006ABEDE?openDocument) or: from Adaptec´s website (URL: http://www.adaptec.com/support/overview/ezscsi4x.html#aspi32) which supports IDE drives! When using this program under WindowsNT it should always work with either SCSI- or IDE-drives even if there´s no ASPI manager installed. If it´s not working install an ASPI layer! More technical information: The program is currently trying to read the ATIP using two different commands. The first command (which works on my Plextor recorder) is the "Read TOC/PMA/ATIP" command although "Read TOC" is a mandatory command in the SCSI3 Specs, reading the ATIP is not! So many recorders will refuse to read the ATIP using this command. The advantage of this method is that I can read the ATIP from unrecorded and recorded media. If this method fails I´ll also try "Read Session Info" command which only gives the ATIP if there´s an empty disc inserted in the drive. If you know of any other method reading the ATIP please let me know as I can add support to the program then. Devices definitely not supported right now (or never): - HP Surestore 4020 - JVC XRW 2022 - JVC XR-W2010 - Kodak PCD 225 - Matshita CDR CW 7501 - Philips CDD 2000 - Ricoh RO-1420n - Teac CD-R50s - Teac CD-R55 - Traxdata CDR 4120 Pro - Yamaha CDR 100 - Yamaha CDR 102 Version History: V1.23 - Fixed a bug related to faulty Intel PIIX-Busmaster drivers reporting a larger maximum transfer length than actually supported. Fixed another bug causing the message "Could not initialize interface" to appear on systems with non-Adaptec ASPI layer running WindowsNT. Improved detection of IDE CD-Recorders - still not perfect! Added this little Textfile (DOC?) to the archive. V1.24 - Fixed a minor bug introduced with V1.23 which caused the program not to identify wrong data anymore. Added support for more drives using another SCSI-3 command. V1.25 - Fixed a bug printing the minutes of the ATIP in Hex instead of decimal! (No one noticed!) Added 3 new manufacturers to the list. V1.26 - Fixed a bug causing "King Pro Mediatek Inc." not to be detected correctly. Added 1 new manufacturer to the list. Added more technical information to the readme.txt file. V1.27 - Fixed a small bug in the manufacturer detection routine. (Hopefully the last one!) :-) Added 1 new manufacturer to the list. V1.28 - Added 5 new manufacturers. V1.29 - Changed some of the GUI elements. Added Button to copy ATIP information to Clipboard. V1.30 - Added 1 new manufacturer. V1.31 - Added 2 new manufacturers: (97m 15s 00f - 97m 15s 09f : TDK Corp., 97m 15s 20f - 97m 15s 29f : Mitsubishi Corp.) V1.32 - Added 1 new manufacturer: (97m 22s 60f - 97m 22s 69f : 97m 45s 20f - 97m 45s 29f : Acer Media Tech, Inc.) V1.40 - Added 2 new manufacturers: (97m 23s 50f - 97m 23s 59f : Optrom Inc., 97m 23s 30f - 97m 23s 39f : Audio Distributors Co., Ltd.) Added ability to distinguish between CD-R and CD-RW media. Added Tooltips to Buttons and Dialogbox. Fixed weird graphics when button was disabled. V1.41 - Added ability to read minimum and maximum recording speeds. V1.42 - Added 3 new manufacturers: (97m 24s 50f - 97m 24s 59f 97m 45s 50f - 97m 45s 59f : Guann Yinn Co. Ltd., 97m 28s 00f - 97m 28s 09f 97m 49s 30f - 97m 49s 39f : Opti. Me. S. SpA, 97m 23s 20f - 97m 23s 29f : Nacar Media srl) Fixed bug not storing all information in clipboard. V1.43 - Fixed a severe bug causing wrong information to be displayed with some CDR media. - Some minor optical changes for systems with 6 or more devices. V1.44 - Added 2 new codes/manufacturers: (97m 23s 60f - 97m 23s 69f : Customer Pressing Oosterhout, 97m 15s 10f - 97m 15s 19f : Ritek Co.) V1.45 - Fixed a small bug introduced due testing. V1.46 - Added 2 new codes/manufacturers: (97m 28s 50f - 97m 28s 59f : Delphi Technology Inc., 97m 29s 00f - 97m 29s 09f : Harmonic Hall Optical Disc, Ltd.) V1.47 - Added 1 new manufacturer: (97m 22s 30f - 97m 22s 39f : Eximpo) V1.48 - Changed the ID of "Harmonic Hall". V1.49 - Added 4 new manufacturers: - Hile Optical Disc Technology Corp. - Friendly CD-Tek Co. - Sound Sound Multi-Media Development Limited. - kdg mediatech AG V1.50 - Added 4 new manufacturers: - Taroko International Co., Ltd. - Unidisc Technology Co., Ltd. - Hong Kong Digital Technology Co., Ltd. - Viva Magnetics Ltd. V1.51 - Added 6 new manufacturers: - Bestdisc Technology Corporation - Wealth Fair Investment Ltd. - General Magnetics Ltd. - MPO - Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. - Vivastar AG V1.52 - Added 1 new manufacturer: - Taroko International Co., Ltd. Fixed a bug introduced with Version 1.51 V1.60 - Added 2 new manufacturers: - Grand Advance Technology Ltd. (new code) - NAN-YA Plastics Corp. V1.61 - Added 1 new manufacturer: - Moser Baer India Ltd. V1.62 - More accurate information (e.g. no dye for CR-RW etc.). Program now always exits when buggy ASPI layer present. V1.63 - Added 1 new manufacturer: - Advanced Digital Media S.r.l.