#1 Burning Software

I need to know the state of the drive tray at any given time(open or closed). I found reference to SCSI command 0xBD which according to the MMC-5, section 6.11 is the Mechanism Status command. Bit 4 of Byte 1 of the returned value is the "door open" bit. It is supposed to indicate the current state of the tray(open or closed). If this isn't possible is there another way to determine the state of the tray.

Nathan

If you're registered customer please let me know and we'd add this functionality. If you're not registered customer please purchase license (after making sure everything else works fine for you). We do provide customization services but only after you'll purchase the license.

...as a workaround you can just call StarBurn_CdvdBurnerGrabber_TestUnitReady(Ex) API call and analyze SCSI sense from CDB_FAILURE_INFORMATION. For opened tray ASC/ASCQ values should be 0x3A/0x01(0x02). The problem is - quite a lot of the drives report 0x3A/0x00 does not matter of tray state... That's why the way you've pointed is more usable. However for release code both ones should be used (older generation drives would not support 0xBD command). Please clarify your StarBurn license stage and we'd continue with this topic.

Thanks!

I am developing CD/DVD burning software for my company . If I'm able to use your library to handle all the CD/DVD issues, my company will purchase a liscense. But they want the application running first before they pay for the library.

Nathan

Unfortunately it's a violation of our company policy...We cannot afford ourself to support feature requests for POTENTIAL customers. We can sign a contract with your company guaranteeing to deliver missing features.

P.S. In any case - please drop me a message to anton@rocketdivision.com with full set of missing features (from your point of view) and your company details. Including license type you're interested in. We'll try to find out some of the decision. Thanks!