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- From: adrie@ica.philips.nl (Adrie Koolen)
- Subject: Re: ** Question re: mode 2 CD-ROM access under MSCDEX
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.082739.2724@ica.philips.nl>
- Organization: Philips Consumer Electronics, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- References: <9301231840.AA05917@fourier.inference.com> <9301240211.AA01800@quaestor>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 08:27:39 GMT
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- In article <9301240211.AA01800@quaestor> "Vance M. Gloster" <gloster@INFERENCE.COM> writes:
- >Not all SCSI CD-ROMs support mode 2, only XA-compatible ones. The old
- >NEC drives do not (we have a CDR-73 that doesn't). Most of the
- >multimedia-compliant drives have it because it came out at the same
- >time as the multimedia spec.
-
- I've had a CDR-83 and a CDR-84, both of which are capable of reading raw
- sectors. I've got an XA compatible driver for the CDR-83/84 and I can read
- Photo-CDs perfectly with it. Of course only the first session of a multi-
- session Photo-CD. The CDR-73 and 74 are external versions of the 83/84.
- According to the SCSI command spec, they all support raw sector reading.
-
- Adrie Koolen (adrie@ica.philips.nl)
- Philips Consumer Electronics, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
-