On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> If a CD-ROM does not support ATAPI, you are not able to
>
> - open/close/lock the door.
This can be supported, though. Most of the non-ATAPI CD-ROM devices
support this behavior, only do they use different commands.
> In addition, if the drive would support DAE via some non-standard
> interface nobody would be happy with it. The DAE quality would be lousy
> and none of the programs that is still supported would be able to use
> the drive decently for DAE.
Not exactly. My old MITSUMI indestructible has digital audio quality above
many of the existing ATAPI devices. Old != Bad.
Regards,
Thunder
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