CD or DVD Disk Path

richs · **Posted:** Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:33 pm

How do I get the path of a CD or DVD drive with StarBurn SDK?

I am working on a program where users select a drive to write data. My users will select the drive by drive letter (i.e. D:). I want to create a CdvdBurnerGrabber for the appropriate drive. Any suggestions would be welcome!

Thanks

kri · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:39 pm **Posts:** 45

While enumerating devices with StarBurn_FindDevice() you get pointer to SCSI_DEVICE_ADDRESS structure for each device. Pass its members to StarBurn_GetDeviceNameByDeviceAddress(), and you will get a string containing drive letter. Something like "\\.\I:".
By the way, question to dev team. What are this slashes at the beginning of a string for ?

richs · **Posted:** Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:20 pm

Thank You!

I should have checked, but I thought StarBurn_GetDeviceNameByDeviceAddress returned the same information as StarBurn_CdvdBurnerGrabber_GetDeviceInformation

anton (staff) · **Posted:** Wed Oct 19, 2005 5:14 pm

Slashes mean standard device prefix in Windows NT and up. Means "device driver symbolic link namespace" and nothing else.

kri · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:39 pm **Posts:** 45

Shame on me for such ignorance...

anton (staff) · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:52 pm

Nothing to be ashamed with

kri wrote:

Shame on me for such ignorance...

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