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From: "Chris Furlough" <furlough@bellsouth.net>
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Subject: Re: CD ROM access using fopen() etc?
Date: 13 May 1997 14:31:37 GMT
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> On a separate issue, why is it that I can read files from the Yaroze boot

> CD and the "demo one" CD, but not from other ISO 9660 ("silver") CD ROMs?

When you open the unit, the operating system in the PS notices, and when
you insert a new CD, it checks the "Copy Protection" on the CD.  If it is
entact, then you can read files from that CD.  If it is not, then none of
the CD routines work.  

> Do the PS CDs use a special format? Or are the stricter file and 
> directory limits stopping the Yaroze PS reading ordinary CDs?

Only the Copy Protection prevents you from reading ordinary CDs..