This is the list of some CD Related Links I found while looking for information:

  • cdrecord - cdrecord ftp site
  • cdrecord - Cdrecord information
  • cdrecord/2 - Cdrecord binary for OS/2
  • Cdrecord drive compat - Cdrecord's drive compatibility list (cannot list all)
  • Xpilot drive compat - Winnie's Cdrecord drive compatibility list (may not be up to date)
  • Sun Cdrom - Sun CD-ROM FAQ
  • Linux Cdrom - Linux CD-Rom Page
  • HOWTOs - Linuxdoc Linux HOWTOs
  • Linux Hardware - Linuxdoc Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO
  • Linux Hardware CD - Linuxdoc Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO: CD-Writers
  • Italian - Cdrecord information (Italian)
  • CD tools - CD related tools (ftp: sunsite.unc.edu)
  • Jörn Fiebelkorn - CD Benchmark ... (W95/W98/WNT only)
  • CD drive Firmware - A collection of CD writer Firmware from Ahead (Note: HTML code us full of bugs so page may not display correctly)
  • Ricoh links - A collection of Links for Ricoh drives
  • HP links - A collection of Links for HP drives
  • HP SCSI commands - A HTML command set for HP C4324
  • Net Express - A collection of Links CD-R and CD-RW links
  • CD-RW - The Unofficial Ricoh CD-ReWritable Page
  • Goldenhawk - A commercial/free M$ CD-R product
  • Adaptec - A commercial M$ CD-R product
  • GEAR - A commercial UNIX CD-R product
  • CDex - A DOS based CDDA program
  • ISO-9660 - The ISO-9660 Filesystem standard
  • SUSP - System Use Sharing Protocol Standard (The base fot the Rock Ridge Standard)
  • RRIP - Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol Standard (The high level part of Rock Ridge)
  • Rock Ridge - The Rock Ridge Standard
  • Rock Ridge - The Rock Ridge Standard (may be temporarily unmounted)
  • Rock Ridge - What are the Rock Ridge extensions?
  • UDF and others - Information the about UDF filesystem and CD-RW media
  • Apple CD's - Apple extensions to ISO-9660
  • CD TEXT - CD TEXT (Sony)
  • CD Disk ID - Disc Identification Method (Sony)
  • Joliet - Microsoft's Joliet non Standard (dead)
  • Joliet - Microsoft's Joliet non Standard (from James Pearson dead too)
  • Joliet - Microsoft's Joliet non Standard (Gordon Chaffee)
  • Joliet - Microsoft's Joliet non Standard (Gordon Chaffee alternate address)
  • Joliet - Gordon's notes on the Linux Joliet implementation(alternate address)
  • Joliet - Microsoft's Joliet non Standard (on microsoft.com)
  • UCS-2 Escape sequences - Used for Joliet
  • PC specs - Phoenix specs including Eltorito standard
  • Eltorito emulator - El-Torito Disk Emulator and Dos CD-ROM driver
  • Aspi_me - Search for the actual place of an aspi_me copy
  • Frontends - GUI's for cdrecord
  • FreeDB - A free approach to cddb
  • FreeDB (German mirror) - A free approach to cddb (Mirror on BerliOS)
  • Cdindex - A free CD database with a database system different to cddb
  • MusicBrainz! - The Cdindex sucessor
  • CD-i - Some CD-i information
  • CD-i - Some CD-i association
  • Brennmeister - A nice German background page
  • CDR-Server - A nice Czech background page with drive comparison lists

  • CD tests - CD DAE Test results (interesting)

  • CD Recording FAQ - CD Recording FAQ Deutsch
  • CD Recording Datenbank - CD Recording FAQ Deutsch mit Datenbanksuche

  • Solaris 2.5 boot - Burning a bootable CDRom for Solaris 2.5
  • Solaris 2.6 boot - Burning a bootable CDRom for Solaris 2.6
  • Solaris boot summary - Summary on burning a bootable CDRom for Solaris
  • Solaris Sparc Boot - Burning a Sparc bootable CDRom using mkisofs

  • Linux Boot - Easy to use Linux boot loader
  • Linux Boot - Memdisk documentation

  • SCSI/mmc - The SCSI-3/mmc-2 Standard (old server)
  • SCSI/mmc - The SCSI-3/mmc-2 Standard
  • SCSI/mmc - The SCSI-3/mmc-3 Standard
  • SCSI-3 - T10 Home Page
  • SCSI-3 - Architecture overview
  • SCSI-3 - Error codes (old server)
  • SCSI-3 - Error codes

  • CD infos - CD, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RAM: The Family Album
  • CD infos - CD's Color Books, Modes, Forms and Subchannels
  • CD Extra - Enhanced CD
  • CD specs - Specs for freeware Developers
  • CD library - CD Technical Library

  • General - Electrical Engineering (Consumer Electronics)
  • CD-Audio - Audio Compact Disk - An Introduction
  • CD-Audio - Audio Compact Disk - Writing and Reading the data
  • CD-ROM - CD/ROM -- An extension of the CD audio standard
  • CD misc - Other disk formats of interest
  • CD Subcode - CD Q-Subcode Decoding and Display
  • CD Subcode - SUBCODE ON THE COMPACT DISK
  • CD-Multimedia - Clickable Imagemap of a CD Player

    If anyone is interested, ECMA (http://www.ecma.ch/) has some CD/DVD specs:

  • ECMA-130 Data Interchange on Read-only 120 mm Optical Data Disks (CD-ROM)
  • ECMA-167 Volume and File Structure for Write-Once and Rewritable Media Using Non-Sequential Recording
  • ECMA-168 Volume and File Structure for Read-Only and Write-Once Compact Disk Media for Information Interchange
  • ECMA-267 120 mm DVD - Read-Only Disk (December 1997)
  • ECMA-268 80 mm DVD - Read-Only Disk (December 1997)
  • ECMA-272 120 mm DVD Rewritable Disk (DVD-RAM) (February 1998)
  • ECMA-273 Case for 120 mm DVD-RAM Disks (February 1998)


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