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From: mk59200@assari.tut.fi (Markku Kolkka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Xetec CD-ROM drive
Keywords: CD-ROM, ISO 9660, SCSI, CD audio
Message-ID: <1990Oct28.160546.27552@assari.tut.fi>
Date: 28 Oct 90 16:05:46 GMT
References: <1990Oct28.043628.23763@uncecs.edu>
Organization: Tampere University of Technology
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In article <1990Oct28.043628.23763@uncecs.edu> ruslan@uncecs.edu (Robin C. LaPasha) writes:
>I have gotten some more information concerning the Xetec CD-ROM drives,
>so I thought I'd pass it on.
>
>You apparently can't (musn't?) access the CD audio data directly since
>"all drives are prohibited from doing this due to copyright laws."  But...

It's not Xetec's fault, the CD-ROM standard apparently prohibits accessing
sound tracks as data.  At least the SCSI command set for CD-ROMs
definetly disallows reading audio data, and if the drive refuses to
give you the audio data, you can't do much about that.

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	Markku Kolkka
	mk59200@tut.fi