In message <96208cc04e.davehigton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Dave Higton <davehigton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [snip] > I finally remembered to bring home a DVD-RAM disc[1] this evening, so > I've tried it on my LG GSA-4163B drive. > > It probably works...! It goes through all the motions at a > convincing speed, and no error messages arise. The obstacle is > that I don't have any means to read it to know whether it has > worked. I look forward to trying your prototype extractor code. CDVDBurn with integrated Extractor will be downloadable for beta testers Friday or Saturday evening - I'm quite happy with the overall performance, but there are still a lot of rough edges. And it is only properly tested on IYONIX with writers, and the user interface is really basic... > > No, I'm not really into writing this kind of low level stuff (i.e. a > > filecore module), although someone experienced in writing such a > > thing could surely produce one in no time at all - if anyone wants > > to have a go, I can provide BBC BASIC prototype code to write to > > DVD-RAM. The biggest problem would probably be to hack HForm ;-) > > I would like to see and try that BASIC code, please. I will package up something sensible, write some doc for it and send it to you - probably after my holiday. You'll be astonished how easy it is to drive a DVD-RAM "by hand". [snip] Steffen -- Steffen Huber LambdaComm System - Welcome to Trollinger Country steffen@xxxxxxxxxxxx Private homepage http://www.huber-net.de/ ... Oh, ein Pentium. Damit haette ich nicht gerechnet.