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- Lines: 57
- Date:
Fri Sep 1 08:45:29 1995
- Orig file:
v1.3.21/linux/drivers/block/README.aztcd
- Orig date:
Sun Aug 13 14:45:28 1995
diff -u --recursive --new-file v1.3.21/linux/drivers/block/README.aztcd linux/drivers/block/README.aztcd
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-$Id: README.aztcd,v 1.60 1995/08/09 12:37:46 root Exp root $
+$Id: README.aztcd,v 1.70 1995/08/19 16:21:05 root Exp root $
Readme-File README.aztcd
for Aztech CD-ROM CDA268-01A, ORCHID CD-3110, OKANO/WEARNES CDD110
CD-ROM Driver
- Version 1.6 and newer
+ Version 1.7 and newer
(for other drives see 6.-8.)
NOTE: THIS DRIVER WILL WORK WITH THE CD-ROM DRIVES LISTED, WHICH HAVE
@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@
2. INSTALLATION
3. CONFIGURING YOUR KERNEL
4. RECOMPILING YOUR KERNEL
- 4.1 AZTCD AS A RUN-TIME LOADABLE MODULE
- 4.2 CDROM CONNECTED TO A SOUNDCARD
+ 4.1 AZTCD AS A RUN-TIME LOADABLE MODULE
+ 4.2 CDROM CONNECTED TO A SOUNDCARD
5. KNOWN PROBLEMS, FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
- 5.1 MULTISESSION SUPPORT
- 5.2 STATUS RECOGNITION
- 5.3 DOSEMU's CDROM SUPPORT
+ 5.1 MULTISESSION SUPPORT
+ 5.2 STATUS RECOGNITION
+ 5.3 DOSEMU's CDROM SUPPORT
6. BUG REPORTS
7. OTHER DRIVES
8. IF YOU DON'T SUCCEED ... DEBUGGING
@@ -181,11 +181,22 @@
5. KNOWN PROBLEMS, FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
5.1 MULTISESSION SUPPORT
-I have now (July 1995) started support of multisession CDs. Unfortunately I
-do only have one multisession CD and no appropriate applications, so I can
-program, but testing is a little too less :-(. If you'd like to help me,
-please contact me. As of version 1.4 you can enable the multisession support
-in aztcd.h by setting AZT_MULTISESSION to 1.
+Multisession support for CD's still is a myth. I implemented and tested a basic
+support for multisession and XA CDs, but I still have not enough CDs and appli-
+cations to test it rigourously. So if you'd like to help me, please contact me
+(Email address see below). As of version 1.4 and newer you can enable the
+multisession support in aztcd.h by setting AZT_MULTISESSION to 1. Doing so
+will cause the ISO9660-filesystem to deal with multisession CDs, ie. redirect
+requests to the Table of Contents (TOC) information from the last session,
+which contains the info of all previous sessions etc.. If you do set
+AZT_MULTISESSION to 0, you can use multisession CDs anyway. In that case the
+drive's firmware will do automatic redirection. For the ISO9660-filesystem any
+multisession CD will then look like a 'normal' single session CD. But never-
+theless the data of all sessions is viewable and accessible. So with practical-
+ly all real world applications you won't notice the difference. But as future
+applications may make use of advanced multisession features, I've started to
+implement the interface for the ISO9660 multisession interface via ioctl
+CDROMMULTISESSION.
5.2 STATUS RECOGNITION
The drive status recognition does not work correctly in all cases. Changing
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