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From: oyang@cs.monash.edu.au (Kai Shing O'Yang)
Subject: Re: Cabling CD-ROM to Sound Blaster
Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 03:02:15 GMT

>Does anyone have any experience with this?  What sort of cabling is
>required?  Is there any easy answers?  (Short of selling their CD-ROM and
>getting the proprietary CD-ROM from Sound Blaster).
>
>Thanks for any comments or assistance.

I've got a SB Pro, a NEC CDR-72 and Adaptec 1542B SCSI adaptor. The CDROM
just works fine with my SBPro, the only snag is to custom made the audio cables
that connect the SBPro and CDR-72(those stereo CD input on the SBPRO). I've 
also used NEC's T128 SCSI interface card with the SB Pro and it also works fine.

In terms of compatability, Windows 3.1 works fine, I can play a music CD and
grab the sounds using the SBPro. I suppose the CDROM interface in the SBPro
is only for convenience sake, not performance.

Hope this helps.
Kai
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Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: gpersily@LIB.UCSF.EDU (Gail Persily)
Subject: SilverPlatter MacSPIRS and PsycLIT
Reply-To: Gail Persily <gpersily@LIB.UCSF.EDU>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 23:39:36 GMT

This message is being cross-posted to CDROM-L and PACS-L.

We recently received SilverPlatter's upgrade to the MacSPIRS software
and the July 1992 PsycLIT cd-rom discs.  We have been experiencing a
problem which Silver Platter tech support has not been able to help us
with.  I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same problem.

The new PsycLIT cd-rom has 2 files on one disc - Journal Articles is one
file and Book Chapters and Books is a second file.  To change between
these two files, you have to select Exchange CD-ROM from the File menu.
You also use that menu choice to eject your disc and insert a different
one.

THE PROBLEM:  Whenever we go into the Book Chapters and Books file,
after we are finished and select Exchange CD-ROM so that we can eject
the disc or go to the other file, the Mac freezes.  We thought we had
the problem solved at one point, but it has recurred - and on more than
one machine.  Silver Platter sent us a replacement cd-rom and software
disk, but they had no effect.

We are running this software on a Mac IIci with an Apple CD-SC drive.

I am very interested to hear if anyone else is experiencing this same
problem with the new PsycLIT disc.  SilverPlatter sure acted like it was
a new one on them.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Gail Persily                            gpersily@lib.ucsf.edu
Instructional Resources                 (415) 476-3766
Univ of Calif, San Francisco
Box 0840, SF, CA  94110
From: warnock@Hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov (Archie Warnock)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Simtel20
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:43:13 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center

In article <CDROM-L%92081322213867@UCCVMA.UCOP.EDU>, SG919C@GWUVM.BITNET (Raad Alhamdan) writes:
|> If you have the Night Owl 6.0 you know what I am talking about.. You only
|> run one program and then every thing is automaticly done!
|> 
|> Any ideas about this...

Sure - _you_ could write a program to do this and post it to the net.
The index is on the disk, isn't it?

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From: "steven baldassarra" <steven.baldassarra@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: cd-rom & adaptec 1542
Date: 22 Aug 92 11:04:06 EST
Reply-To: "steven baldassarra" <steven.baldassarra@canrem.com>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Canada Remote Systems


AE>2.   I can't load ASPI4DOS.SYS (ver 3.0a) high. Ver 2.0 worked when I used an
AE>IDE drive.  When I sold off the IDE and used the SCSI to boot, QEMM (6.0) would
AE>report exception 13 (protection exception).  This same problem occured on
AE>moving to ver 3.0a of ASPI4DOS.  Any solutions?

Looks like you didn't read the asw1410.txt that come with the ver 3.0a
of ASPI4DOS. If you use your SCSI drive as a booting device, you have to
load ASPI4DOS before QEMM and should and could not load it high. But,
if you are not using your SCSI drive as a booting device you could load
ASPI4DOS after QEMM and load it high.

AE>Also, has anyone tried the LONGSHINE  LC6633F SCSI controller?  It has
AE>variable geometry translation - you run a setup (from the adapter's BIOS)
AE>to fix the translation for the drives.  This is then stored in an EEPROM.
AE>The Controller is a Bus-Mastering controller as well but uses a Z80 CPU
AE>(or some variant) as the adapter's controller.  It can link up drives to
AE>emulate a single large capacity drive as well (this is from the brochure
AE>from the company).  The maximum yield from translation is 128 GB.

AE>The card supports IDE and floppy drives as well (Yes, I know - no big deal).

AE>They also claim their performance to be on par with the AH1542B.  The quoted
AE>price is under USD200.00  (in this country).  You do need drivers for CD ROMs
AE>and Tapes though (bleah).

I recalled somebody on the net try it out, and finally return it.

Steven
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Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: mboom@ntg.com (Mike Boom)
Subject: Good thesaurus for Mac?
Organization: New Technologies Group, Inc.  Palo Alto CA
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:41:55 GMT

I'm looking for a good CD-ROM thesaurus for the Mac.  In a perfect world,
I'd be able to get Roget's Thesaurus fully cross-indexed, but I suspect
that my current options are limited to titles like "Billy Jim's Big Book
'o Words" if I have any options at all.  Does anyone know of a good CD-ROM
thesaurus for the Mac?  (Windows users can now sneer with superiority
while looking over the screen of their excellent CD-ROM thesaurus...)

Thanks and a tip of the hat,

Mike Boom
Toxic Screen Dumps, Inc.
(an unsupported nonsubsidiary of the New Technologies Group)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: Where is Bob Bruce these days?
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 16:43:10 GMT

In article <713914036snx@pands.demon.co.uk> paul@pands.demon.co.uk (Paul Wilson) writes:
>Could someone tell me the Email address of Bob Bruce of Walnut Creek and
>very good value CD's fame please?

You'll find his (and many other useful addresses) in
 13567 Aug  5 15:12 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/author10.zip

"If you do not know how to go about getting this material, users are
welcome to email me for the prerecorded garbo.uwasa.fi instructions
(long, circa 29Kb).  North American users are referred to the garbo
mirror on wuarchive.wustl.edu.  Australian users are referred to the
archie.au mirror.  The mirrors may lag occasionally, or might not
have all the files.  If you do not receive my reply within five
days, please ask your own site's system manager to construct a
returnable mail path for you". 

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland

Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: mhatay@radphys.sdsu.edu (Mark Hatay)
Subject: Kodak Photo-CD
Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:25:27 GMT

Hi, Im looking to get a CD-Rom drive for a PC (SCSI) and would like to
read Kodak Photo-Cds. I have been looking at some good deals of older models
Can a normal CD-Rom drive read the Kodak format ?
Can the files be edited, are they in a format that can be imported into
a graphics program like Micrografx Picture Publisher, TIF,PCX,GIF ???
What is the resolution ?
This sounds like cool stuff but it's not clear how the processing works,
I would like to edit pictures and have them printed on paper.Do they 
print off Photo-Cd, Do they print off a floppy ?
If there is a FAQ please point me to it.
Thanks Mark
mhatay@sciences.sdsu.edu

C


Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: WILLH@CWU.BITNET ("Will Hiatt")
Subject: Re: Simtel20
Reply-To: "Will Hiatt" <WILLH@CWU.bitnet>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 17:37:00 GMT

Raad Alhamdan <SG919C@GWUVM.BITNET> asks

> I just got Simtel20 for MSDOS... The way I see to extract files from it
> is as follows:
>               1- Think of the catagory you want.
>               2- Go there and read the 00_index file.
>               3- Select and copy to HardDisk.
>               4- Dearchive and use.
>
> Now, I don't know about you people, but this is a long procedure for me..

I don't know of anything that will show you the index and allow you to point
and extract; however, I believe you could cut out one step by not copying the
achived file to your hard disk. Most any de-archiver should be able to extract
directly from the CD-ROM to any writeable device. In addition, I seem to
remember that the Simtel20 disk I have had a comprehensive index in the root
directory, so you wouldn't need to find a category and read its 00_index file.

Given this, the steps you could take would be to do the following:

               1- Read the root index file
               2- Dearchive from the CD-ROM subdirectory and use

 **  Will Hiatt  *  WILLH@CWU.BITNET  *  Central Washington University  **
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: dchan@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David Chan)
Subject: list of CDROM titles
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:06:53 GMT

Hi, I am new to the world of CD-ROM. Would anybody kindly
tell me where or which company can I get a complete list
of all CD-ROM that are on the market right now.

Also I would like to get a CD-Rom of encyclopedia.
Can anybody tell me which one is good and where can I get it.

Thank you very much.

Dave Chan
dchan@bsac.berkeley.edu
Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center.
From: yau@cs.concordia.ca (Joseph K. K. Yau)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Help: Philips' CM155 interface + CM100 CD drive
Keywords: Philips
Date: 21 Aug 92 08:40:13 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

Hi,
  Anyone have any experience to install a Philips CM100 CDROM with CM155 
interface to a 486 ? I like to use the new MS extension driver MSCDEX.EXE
I have the new MSCDEX driver but...

  1. I do not have the new driver for CM155 interface card.
     (Someone suggest me to use the driver CM153.MSC but I do not know the
      parameters. Any help?)


  2. I do not have the documentation for the CM155 and CM100.
     (Since Philips do not sell CM155 in Canada.) Therefore I need some
     help.

     There are two connectors/ports and some dip switches at the back of the
     CM100 CDROM drive. Could anyone tell me what is the correct
     dip switches setting ?
     And which of the port (the upper or the lower one) should I connect to
     the CDROM. 

     On the CM155 interface card, there are four dip switches. I think they
     are for the setting of port number. Could anyone tell me what is the
     correct setting ?

I really need help to get them working with the new microsoft extension.
Any help or direction  will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

-yau
From: jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Desktop Library CD - buy it!
Date: 21 Aug 92 08:39:28 GMT
Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.

I suspect that a lot of the files may have come from project Gutenberg in
the first place :-) but it's a good suggestion..

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From: jack@admin.mport.COM (Jack Craig)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Any info on Sony "Electronic Book"?
Keywords: Sony EB DD-DR1
Date: 13 Aug 92 19:22:31 GMT
Organization: Microport Inc., Scotts Valley, CA 95066 US of A

i got a brochure from a local sony rep. the unit has a lcd screen
on the top and the cdplayer unit is on the bottom half. its market
info only, but it does seem to exist. i was actually inquiring about
the cd publishing, but i asked to see the unit these media worked with.

the guys i talked to were in the monterey calif. office of sony e-publishing.
i expect you have sony reps closer.

jack...
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From: jack@admin.mport.COM (Jack Craig)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Need UNIX Info
Date: 13 Aug 92 19:31:34 GMT
Organization: Microport Inc., Scotts Valley, CA 95066 US of A

beth@techpubs.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Beth Boynton) writes:

>We are producing data on a UNIX system for UNIX systems
>and presently have to transfer it to a DOS machine
>to master CD's. We would prefer to master at the
>UNIX station.  Does anyone know of any mastering machines
>which have UNIX SVR4 drivers for a SCSI connection?  

i'm a unix device driver writer in search of just such an opportunity.
most of the mastering apps are dos based as you've seen due to a lack
of drivers. i can(and want badly) to write those drivers and help
get the mastering apps off the ground. i need access to a unit and its oem
manual for the scsi command set.

i have a great deal of driver writing experience on both sco unix as well
as svr4(i am employed 8 - 5 and microprts scsi device driver engineer!).
i have made several enhancements to the stock cdrom driver and
know well what must be done for the mastering stuff. i also work
with sgi's cdrom software.

if you cant find an off the shelf solution, let me know.

jack...
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>                                                    
>Thanks.
From: jerry@incc.com (Jerry Rocteur)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: sound boards and cd-rom
Summary: cd-rom with ESDI drive
Date: 17 Aug 92 17:39:46 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: InCC.com Perwez Belgium

In article <CDROM-L%92081618304959@UCCVMA.UCOP.EDU>, LBU05@UKANVM.BITNET (Jim Bingham) writes:
> 
>    There have been 2 questions on this list this weekend about the
> Soundblaster and CD-ROM.
> 
> 1) Jerry Rocteur inquires:
> >I have an ESDI controller and drive on my dos machine, so to add a
> >cd-rom I get the SBPro card and the CD rom and I don't  have to buy a
> >SCSI controller ??? Is this right ???
> >Can I use the SBPro with _any_ cd-rom ?? if not which ones ??
> 
>    The SBPro has a proprietary interface that only works with a CD-ROM
> marketed by Panasonic, Matsushita, and others.  It is NOT SCSI.  If you buy
> the CD-ROM that Creative Labs sells, of course, you're fine.  The SBPro will
> work with any CD-ROM drive, however, as long as its own SCSI interface
> card is installed.  On the other hand, the MediaVision Pro  Spectrum Plus
> and 16 has a standard SCSI on the card that will interface with many drives.
Thanks for that, so I don't do it this way, what would you guys
recommend, I have an ESDI controller and hard drive, so which CD rom
and controller do I buy?????


I *am* confused :-(
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From: aa330@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU (Neil Gould)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: CD-Rom & Adaptec 1542b
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:37:37 GMT
Reply-To: Neil Gould <aa330@cleveland.Freenet.Edu>
Distribution: alt
Organization: FUNET-NGW

>
>Muse of the day.  After spending the last two days and nights trying
>to get the 1542b to talk to a Syquest SQ555 removable hard drive
>and a Matshita CD-ROM (panasonic clone), I just gotta ask.  How the
>hell does Adaptec manage to f*ck up so badly?  Both devices work
>with Future domain, Allways, DTK Segate ST01 and even the Trantec parallel
>port host adaptor.  Why is it every time I get near an Adaptec host
>adaptor, I can just plan on trashing a day or so?  Last time it was
>an Exabyte, time before that it was a newbury hard drive, before
>that an Archive cartridge tape drive.  In each case, the official
>adaptec advice has been "get new firmware for the offending device."
>

The 1542b is a BUSS MASTERING SCSI controller, unlike the others that you
mentioned. One implication is that devices attached to it need to adhere
tightly to the SCSI spec to function properly. "Dumb" controllers are just
interfaces, and as such aren't trying to implement the full SCSI spec, which
is necessary for buss mastering.

The appropriate response to operational glitches would be to "get new firmware
for the offending device." That being said, you shouldn't have problems with
devices like the SQ555. As for putting your CD-ROM at LUN#1, that might be a
problem... why does it matter?

>Methinks the benefits of having adaptec sorta on the net and the Neese
>utilities are being far outweighed by the time costs involved.
>
>While I'm at it, anyone have a suggestion for a host adaptor that
>will do the following:
>
>*	Run with windows without double buffering
>*	Do what microsoft calls "32 bit transfers."
>*	support the Syquest drive.
>*	support the Exabyte
>*	Support a CD-ROM
>
WINDOWS requires double buffering with SCSI devices, and punches itself
in the face, *hard*, when it isn't there...
I'm not aware of anything from MS that does 32-bit transfers.
I have 3 SyQuest drives on 3 machines with different controllers, including
one on a 1542b. No problems with any of them when using the appropriate
drivers.
The Exabyte and CD-ROM drives will require drivers for use with any controller.


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From: u1208@terapin.com (Gordon Ng .)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Cd-rom's and BBSes
Date: 17 Aug 92 09:47:53 GMT
Organization: BBS

I have a very generic question about CD-ROMs that are used for storage on
BBSes. Let's say you have a BBS with 6 lines, and you have a CD-ROM online with
a CD like "BBS In A Box" or something. What will happen if all 6 lines are
filled at the same time, and they all try to download DIFFERENT files off the
same CD? Will the CD-ROM have to keep searching the CD for the files, thus
causing and INCREDIBLE slowdown??? What happens if all 6 users try to download
the SAME file??? I'm just curious. Thanks for any help in advance.
From: EUREKA@BRLNCC.BITNET (Eduardo Haddad Filho)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Books in Print
Date: 19 Aug 92 11:39:50 GMT
Reply-To: Eduardo Haddad Filho <EUREKA@BRLNCC.bitnet>
Distribution: alt
Organization: FUNET-NGW

Hi All:
Can anyone tell me if the BOOKS IN PRINT has been published in
CD-ROM? I believe I read somewhere that it had, but I can't find
anyone who carries them.
Thanks!
Eduardo Haddad Filho
Bitnet: EUREKA@BRLNCC
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: rkl@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (kevin.laux)
Subject: Re: sound boards and cd-rom
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:27:29 GMT

In article <CDROM-L%92081618304959@UCCVMA.UCOP.EDU>, LBU05@UKANVM.BITNET (Jim Bingham) writes:
>    Basically true.  However, the MPC standard requires a direct cable
> connection between an internal CD-ROM audio input on the sound
> board and the CD-ROM drive.  But I need someone to tell ME just what
> the role of this cable vs the SB's proprietary interface actually is.  Is it
> to play standard CD audio?

	The SBPro has a proprietary interface to the CD-ROM; it is used to
control the CD-ROM.  There is also an Audio cable connection that is separate
that is used for audio only.  If you buy the MPC upgrade kit you get the SBPro,
the CD-ROM drive and both the control and audio cables, along with a MIDI kit,
Windows 3.1 and some other assorted CD's.  If you buy the SBPro board itself,
that's all you get - no cables.  Presumably, you would get the audio and control
cables when you buy the CD-ROM drive.

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Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: CONRADERJ@H8700A.BOEING.COM ("JOHN S. CONRADER")
Subject: PhotoCD Help?
Reply-To: "JOHN S. CONRADER" <CONRADERJ@H8700A.BOEING.COM>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:36:00 GMT

Hi,
  My wife talked to a local photo processor and they told her that to
get a photoCD made would cost $25 for the first 25 pictures and then
$1.40 for each additional picture(all on one session).  I didn't think
that that made any sense because at that cost, you could get four PhotoCDs
for less than the cost of one CD.  We were planning on collecting 100 of
our favorite pictures and putting them onto a single session disk, but this
does not seem to be the best way?  I think that maybe they have their numbers
wrong.  They said that they have not sent any pictures out for PhotoCD
processing yet, so that could be the problem.
  I was wondering if anyone has taken advantage of PhotoCDs yet and what
were the results and how much did it cost.

If anyone can share any info, I would appreciate it.

Thanks.

-John Conrader :)

Internet: conraderj@h8700a.boeing.com