Can I control DirectCD from my own app to Eject, Format, etc?

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From: Peter Barton
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 00:00

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I'm building a kiosk type application, which as part of its operations
copies files onto CDR discs. The Adaptec DirectCD driver seems to work
fine as far as making the drive accessable from my software, just like
reading / writing a hard disk.

The big problem is ejecting discs, and also formatting discs. DirectCD
won't let a disc be ejected until it is closed - you can't even eject
using the eject button on the CD drive. Problem is that there will be
no way for the user to open the DirectCD Wizard and close the disc
manually. Is there any way programatically that I can either close the
disc myself, tell DirectCD to close it, or even just force the disc
out unclosed? The source code I found will only spit out a closed
disc, otherwise it fails. I notice that Eject from Windows Explorer
still works, so I guess they're either forcing it, or there is
something special happening there that DirectCD knows about.

This is with DirectCD 2.5 by the way, I'm about to go and buy version
3 to see if that helps me at all...


Peter Barton: pbarton@tig.com.au
P.O. Box 364, Bulleen, VIC 3105, Australia
http://www.madmaxmovies.com/ - Mad Max!

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From: pbarton@tig.com.au (Peter Barton)
Subject: Can I control DirectCD from my own app to Eject, Format, etc?
Date: 1999/10/07
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