Re: How to control CDrom IDE

["Gardiner, Charles" <charles.gardiner@mchr2.siemens.de>]

Yes, it is a little off topic but maybe I can help anyway.
I expect you will need to control the CDROM in one of the so called PIO modes. I can
recommend the following info sources:
ANSI Standard X3.221-1994 (ATA)
ANSI Standard X3.279-1996(ATA-2)
ANSI Standard X3.298-1997(ATA-3)
They used to be available on the Quantum web-site, but I have just seen that they
have redesigned their site and my links are broken. I'm sure a site or web search
might turn them up somewhere unless ANSI have objected to them being made available
for free.
There is also a good book by Schmidt, called 'SCSI Bus und IDE Schnittstelle' which
appeared by Addison-Wesley. I only have the ISBN of the German original edition ISBN
3-8273-1417-9, but as far as I remember, they have done an English Translation.

I hope this helps a bit.  Otherwise.....we could do it for you

Regards,
Charles
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