Does anyone know of any tricks to attempt to read ATIP information via ATA commands on a drive that does not have access to the ATIP reading command? From all the documentation I've read it seems that there should be some sort of method that would require doing actual analysis on the audio information. Past that are there methods to distinguish a CD-R from a pressed disc on older platforms? Thanks.
I think that reading ATIP requires the drive hardware to be capable of detecting and decoding wobble on the sides of the pits on the media. The only kind of pressed media I know of with wooble are Playstation discs. So I believe that drives which are supposed to read only silver media not really need to be able to read such information.
Quite a few softwares read the atip info if your drive supports reading it: http://w510.tm.odessa.ua/soft/cdr_atip/ http://w510.tm.odessa.ua/soft/cdr_atip/ I used minfo a while back, but I can't find it anymore. Some cd drives (non writing drives) can read the info but others (mainly old) can't. My understanding is that if they dont' have the command, they can't read it.
