[lug] API for cdrom low level reading

[Jeffrey Siegal]

I think there's a library version of paranoia.

On Sep 4, 2006, at 10:54 , D. Stimits wrote:

> I was toying with the idea of writing an app to do some significant  
> testing of cd's, track by track, reading a single track at a time  
> and doing things such as timing the read. This would not require  
> the SCSI command set that sits on top of IDE for burning cd's. I'm  
> trying to narrow down exactly what API I would use, and am  
> wondering if anyone here knows if there is a linux API layer I  
> could access without dealing with kernel modules directly, and  
> which is independent of IDE/ATAPI-IDE in general? The idea being  
> perhaps there is a virtual/logical layer on top of this that would  
> let me just read tracks from a cd without tying it to specific  
> protocols, i.e., some sort of abstraction that in turn has access  
> to the specific device's IDE or other driver. Does anyone have a  
> suggestion on the most "abstracted" API or API docs for doing lower  
> level block and track reads on an unmounted cdrom (or mounted but  
> ignoring filesystem)?
>
> D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net
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