Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 12:36:46 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: Toby Ounsted <Toby AT viglen DOT co DOT uk>
cc: "djgpp AT delorie DOT com" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: IDE CdRom detection
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On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Toby Ounsted wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>     I've seen loads of programs around which can detect IDE Hard drives - 
>and report back the Vendor ID, Firmware Revision and so forth.  Does anyone 
>know how I'd go about getting similar information from an IDE CdRom drive??
Get the ATA3 standard specification from
  ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi/pub/msdos/programming/standards 
or Linux kernel sources from anywhere you can.
Basically detecting IDE CD-ROM is the same as detecting an ATA IDE HDD.

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