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A CD-ROM (stands for Compact Disc Read-only memory) is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback.

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How to issue a READ CD command to a CD-ROM drive in Windows?

I'm working on an application that needs to issue raw SCSI commands to a CD-ROM drive. Currently, I'm struggling with sending a READ CD (0xBE) command to the drive and getting back the data from a given sector of the CD. Consider the following code…
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Reading data from CD-ROM or DVD using the browser

I am building a webapp for a friend where the user interface should allow users to press a button, and it should somehow upload all of the contents of the CD-ROM/DVD they have inserted, to a server. I can't really have the standard "Choose file..."…
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CD-ROM identification through serial number

I am interested in CD identification. My Question: Is there a serial number that can be retrieved programmatically? Edit (Resolved): VB version Delphi version
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Drive Letter vs. DevicePath

I'm searching about this since last week, almost all links about DriveLetter x DevicePath/Volume/Device ID/whatever are purple for me. I'm developing an application that List some sotorage devices and also HDI/WPD devices using SetupApi functions…
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Differentiating Mode 2 Form 1 from Mode 2 Form 2 on XA CD-ROMs?

I'm developing a library for reading CD-ROMs and the ISO9660 file system. Long story short, pretty much everything is working except for one thing I'm having a hard time figuring out how it's done: Where does XA standard defines differentiation…
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CDROM, F2 Reed-Solomon P Q codes in CIRC encoder

I research info about CDROM principies. In standart http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-130.pdf On page 35(45 in pdf) i see CIRC encoder. And his have Q code, and P codes, who calculated by reed-solomon algoritm. I try…
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Treat Windows CDROM Drive as Block File?

I'm attempting to use a Python module (python-dvdvideo to be exact) to clone an ISO image. The provided class works fine if I pass it a filepath to an ISO file that is already on my computer, but it throws an exception if I attempt to pass it the…
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CD/DVD Boot Sector

Can anyone explains how CD/DVD Boot Sector works to me? I've extracted some boot sectors from ISO images and found out that some of them are 6 sectors long and some are 8. I tried to look it up but no results. What is the minimum(maximum) length of…
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Is there a way to check if a CD-R is finalized in Java?

I am writing a program, and one of the requirements is that data can only be accepted from a CD-R that has been finalized. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to accomplish this check in Java. Any help would be much appreciated!
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Random seek on CD-ROM drive

This works on Linux, but not (as I would like) on FreeBSD: I wish to exercise my CD-ROM drive, to keep the dust off the lens. On Linux I run (as root) a C program I wrote which seeks back and forth, reading a single block each time as it goes. On…
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Python Ripping CD Files to WAV

I'm writing a program where I need to be able to rip files from a CD into WAV format (or flac but wav works fine). It must run on Windows. I saw other answers where Express Rip and Audio Commander were recommended as command line tools. But Audio…
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CD-Rom eject by C code

Im trying eject my CD rom via C code.And it dont want to work. ioctl returned "5" I/O error, where could be a problem? #include #include #include #include #include #include…
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Fast data reading from CD-ROM

I have to read a large file containing many animation frames from CD/DVDrom and display it into screen as an animation. When reading from hard disk, the strategy of reading a frame into memory, processing, displaying and then reading next frame…
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Embedding a Tomcat server on CD-ROM (or unwritable disk)

Suppose I need to make a CDROM with a Tomcat server. How can I guarantee that all the jsp files have correctly been compiled before I build the CD image to be burnt ?
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Legacy CD-ROM driver or program as a pass-through to a real CD/DVD drive

I have a legacy program that reads/rips CD/Music data from a disk. It is a custom program that reads the track data and converts it to wma/wpa/wav format. The user then enters how it is to be licensed and the program ingests the data and music files…
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