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Article #13Re: Can I control DirectCD from my own app to Eject, Format, etc?
From: Mike Richter
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 00:00
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You have some misunderstandings here. For background, please see any of the usual references: the CD-R FAQ, Adaptec's WWW site or the primer at my CD-R site. Peter Barton wrote: > The big problem is ejecting discs, and also formatting discs. DirectCD > won't let a disc be ejected until it is closed Not so. It will not let you eject until the cached writes are completed. > - 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. There is nothing special here; Explorer, like any other s/w eject, will hang until the cached writes are completed, then implement the command. That said, I know of no programs or components to accomplish your objective. Mike mrichter@cpl.net http://mrichter.simplenet.com CD-R http://resource.simplenet.com
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