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Re: CD-ROM operations

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From: Garance A. Drosehn
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 22:49
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ratlifc@prometheus.stu.rpi.edu (Christian A. Ratliff) writes:
> 
>    I am looking to write a nice interface for my CD-ROM drive to play  
> audio disks. I know that cdplayer and CDPlayer both exist, but I want a  
> lot more functionality than that, and I'm willing to write it. I would  
> like pointers, however, to any docs on how to do CD-ROM operations on the  
> NeXT. I understand that it is SCSI controlled, however, I don't recall  
> there being any SCSI commands like "how many tracks", "what is the length  
> of track n". If the writers of cdplayer and CDPlayer would give me  
> information, I would be most appriciative. (Why should they do all the  
> work? And have all the fun?)

I'd be pretty interested in this information too.  Both Christian and I have  
ideas that we'd like to write up, but we're not quite sure where to start.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA
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