Short: Identifies CD-R/W media (update!) Author: avallino@diff.org (Andrea Vallinotto) Uploader: avallino diff org (Andrea Vallinotto) Type: disk/cdrom Version: 1.5 Replaces: disk/cdrom/IdentCDR.lha Architecture: m68k-amigaos This small tool checks the ATIP (Absolute Time In Pre-groove) of a CD-R/W media. Usually this area is used by CD-R/W manufacturers to encode their brand, and some other useful stuff, like type of media and minimum and maximum recording speed. (Not every CD-R/W has the last information, try and see). It also gives you some additional data, like maximum capacity of the CD-R/W, maximum allowed recording capacity (that is always a bit less than the first one), name of volume, publisher, software used for burning, etc... See the included documentation (IdentCDR.doc) for additional information! NEW TO VERSION 1.5: Now IdentCDR uses a 'brainfile' named IdentCDR_Brain. Future updates of IdentCDR will only need the brainfile. The information about ATIP encoding can be found at: http://www.world.sony.com/Electronics/CD-R/index.html If IdentCDR can't identify your support, please mail me the printed values. It should look like: Brand unknown or no CD-R! Values are: M 97, S 29, F 55 Version history: 1.5 New distribution format! Now IdentCDR has a brainfile, used to store the identification information. So future updates will only need the brainfile, not the whole program. Fixed a typo in this doc. Some more entries: 64 slots. 1.4 Now prints some information about the volume name, creator and such of the first session; thanks to Andrzej Boreczko for some help and encouraging me. Can (and will) correctly disinguish between CD-R and CD-RW; thanks to Stephen White for hinting this. This feature will work on CD burners only, no CD-ROM. Added display on the titlewindow of how many slots are available. Added new entries: 60 slots, about 56-58 entries (= different brands), Fixed a typo in the entries database. 1.3 Some more entries: 54 slots, about 50 entries (TDK and Mitsubishi have two slots) . Reworked command-line interface. New commands (both from CLI and Workbench): DUMP and DEBUG. (actually, DEBUG was already there in 1.2, but it was hidden). 1.2 Added a small reqtools GUI. Added reading tooltypes from icon. Added recording length discovery/display. Now checks for 'prohibited' values. See the above URL for explanations. Finally found out how to get exec device informations from a volume specification (like CD1:). BPCL sucks!!! No longer displays obtained values on the Shell. Is this a problem for anyone ? Executable is indeed shorter than 1.1, because in 1.1 I linked some useless math libraries; IdentCDR is long about a tenth of the Windoze counterpart. But if anybody wants it, I can supply with a 300K version (18K of code and 282K of useless junk, just to make you happy). Really knows 41 brands, because FUJI uses two slots. 1.1 Fixed memory leak (46 bytes not freed). New method for those drives who can't use READ_TOC_PMA_ATIP. Some more sanity checks to ensure returned data is valid. Currently knows 42 brands (are these all ?). 1.0 Initial release