Re: Writing Sector(s) on CD

From:

"William DePalo [MVP VC++]" <willd.no.spam@mvps.org>

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microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 19:42:59 -0400

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"Peter Pippinger" <peter.pippinger@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:1150060325.265041.314840@c74g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...

could you please point me to some resources, where i can learn, how to
access the CD-drive for burning data on it. The device should be an ATA
drive. No SCSI.

XP introduced the Image Mastering API (IMAPI)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/imapi/imapi/imapiv1.asp

for that.

If you need to target older platforms you might want to take a look at the
SCSI pass through interface (SPTI) sample in the NT DDK. That sample
illustrates how to compose SCSI CDBs and how to send them to the device's
driver. It worked equally well with ATA devices.

I don't know whether the technique still works on XP or if the sample is
still available in the most recent DDK. I suggest that you repost your
question in the kernel group

microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel

if you don't want to go the IMAPI route.

Regards,
Will