Re: Mixed-mode CD Labels

[Andreas Mohr]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 07:06:46PM +1000, Chris Green wrote:
> Hi,
> I've just experimentally, in my own copy of the CVS, changed the code in 
> misc/cdrom.c so that it handles mixed mode CDs the same as data CDs for 
> retrieving CD labels. (In the process of trying to get Age of Empires 1 to 
> run in single-player mode).
>
> And surprisingly, it worked! (mind you AOE is not fast under wine, but that's 
> another problem).
>
> Does anyone have any comments on this approach? if not I'll submit a patch...

Hmm, did you actually implement something new or just used old sector reading
code ?

I know for a fact that you need special raw sector ioctl()s at least for certain
mixed-mode CDs...