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From: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: (no subject given)
Date: 16 Sep 1992 01:43:16 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu

comp.os.ms-windows.misc 
Subject: Corel 3.0 Maintenance Upgrade CD-ROM
Reply-To: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)



According to Corel technical support, there is an maintenance update CD
available that fixes known bugs in V 3.0B of Corel Draw, adds extra
fonts and an improved PCX filter.  Contact Corel Technical support at:
1-613-728-1990 (Voice) or 1-613-728-9175 (FAX) for details.



-- 
aa699@Cleveland.Freenet.EDU/GEnie=A.THOMAS16/Compuserve:71541,3456
TONY THOMAS - SIGop - Audio Arts SIG - Cleveland FreeNet
"True riches is not what you have - It's the kind of person you are"

Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: ppaglia@bnr.ca (Peter Paglia P925)
Subject: Creative Labs CD-ROM fix
Keywords: CD CD-ROM Creative Labs SoundBlaster
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, BNR-RTP 
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:41:37 GMT



I have the Creative Labs MMUK CD-ROM installed in my 386-40, as several
others have posted, and I too am pleased and satisfied with its 
performance. 

I bought mine in April and have been using it almost every day since, 
thanks to Walnut Creek :)

I really like the fact that the CD-ROM interface is built in to the
SoundBlaster, and I can run ALL of my PCs sound outputs through the 
same speakers. And It only requires one slot. (as opposed to a separate 
scuzzy card and soundcard). I can record directly from a CD to a .VOC or
.WAV file.

I did have the same problem as other posters here have,
where the CD player reports 'not ready' or somthing similar.
The good news is that the fix (at least in my case) was easy and quick.
I got one of those cd lens cleaner things, and ran it a few times.
Problem terminated......

On a side note, a len cleaner CD will usually run about $20USD, (even for the
'audio' versions.....as if there was a difference!) For a CD with a piece
of felt glued to it is kind of expensive. The blurb on the box led me to 
believe that there were special codes codes on the CD, and some miracle
'lens cleaner' fluid in the tiny red bottle included. Closer examination,
however, reveiled nothing of the sort. It seems to be just a 'scrap' cd
with, like I said, a piece of felt stuck to it. I think it would have been 
more cost effective to use, say, a Bon Jovi cd, and attach the liner from a 
5 1/2 floppy disk to the READ surface. (via machine screws? :))

On ther other hand, I may be wrong, and the disk itself might be filled 
with special 'your lens is being cleaned now' codes that only the player 
can read. And the felt might be special 'no scratch, zero lint' felt
imported from Tibet, and the cleaning fluid is fermented butterfly spit.

Anyway, the problem was easy to fix. The cd drive has performed well since,
even on non-standard CDs, i.e. over 660Mbytes. I have never experienced
static, or stray noise from the SoundBlaster Pro card. I would readily
recomend this card and drive to anyone.


Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: chinc@ecf.toronto.edu (CHIN CHIEN TING)
Subject: Re: SB CDROM DRIVE PROBLEMS ?
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:37:44 GMT

In article <3105@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> dcb@mulka.ph.unimelb.edu.au (David Bell) writes:
>with my Sound Blaster CD-ROM drive (The one that comes with the
> [...]
>	The symptom is that when you do a 'dir' on the cdrom drive
>it frequently responds with 'not reading drive L abort, cancel, retry',
>after firstly  logging most of the directories but not all. If you then 'retry'
>several times it does finally respond, and then manages to log the whole disk.

I just got the same package, and as I wrote in an article on the past Sunday,
I often get this error (I think it's "not ready" instead of "not reading").
I rarely got this problem from DOS, more often in Windows, especially from
Bookshelf for Windows. Also, the Windows setup program, when encounter this
problem, will just refuse to continue the installation. But after I did a
dir /s from DOS, and answer retry whenever it stops, Windows setup without
a cough. So, my theory is there are dust on the disk, and as they got removed
in a few retry, the problem disappears. I will have to verify this theory
in the next few days, but I also appreciate any enlightment from the net.

BTW, I am testing the software that come with the package, and if there is
a need (please show by email or articles), I can write a review and post
it.


-- 
CHIN, Chien Ting 
Dept of Physics
University of Toronto                                  \ /
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From: gess@knex.Gwinnett.COM (Gess Shankar)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Seeking CD-ROM storage and labeling ideas
Date: 8 Sep 92 14:37:51 GMT
Organization: Knowledge Exchange, GA, US of A

rayn@anasazi.com (Ray Niemeir) writes:

> [stuff deleted]
> I'd like to find a good way to label the edges of each jewel box
> and (temporarily) label the edges of a caddy so that titles
> can be picked out from a normal audio CD rack by looking at
> the edges only.
> 
> Any good ideas for labeling or better schemes for storage?
> 

I have somewhat similar requirements. The space available for labelling
the caddies is narrow and one is forced to use the labels that come with
the caddies. Some of them peel off good, others make a mess. So unless
I wish to permanently label caddies, I don't bother. I wish caddies will
come with a slot to insert small labels....

I have numbered the slots of the rack and I have a plastic sleeve, containing
an index of the caddies' contents. This enforces the discipline of returning
caddies to their slots, but it works. I keep the index sheet is a simple
WP document and update it and print a laser copy, when there is a revision
of contents.

Re: Jewel boxes. Most jewel boxes do come with titles on the spine, so it
is not a problem. In those cases, where the CD's come in sleeves and I
want to use a jewel box, I have a style sheet in Ventura (one can use any
decent WP program), that will print the spine, crease mark, any text I
want to print on the face and cut lines. I print this and cut, crease and
pop out the cd holder, insert sheet and snap the cd holder again...

GeSS
--
Gess Shankar      |<><>|Internet: gess@knex.Gwinnett.COM                |<><>|
Knowledge Exchange|<><>|{rutgers,ogicse,gatech}!emory!gwinnett!knex!gess|<><>|
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: gregb@AMAZON.SANDIEGO.NCR.COM
Subject: Re: Evolution of Media (was: Re: Re- PhotoCD & patents )
Reply-To: gregb@AMAZON.SANDIEGO.NCR.COM
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:30:08 GMT

> Recent news reports have it that AT&T (and others) have been working
> on storage where bits can be enscribed on a molecule giving terabytes
> of data on media the size of a postage stamp (ok... I may
> be exagerating; it maybe a little thicker;)
>
> If we could put that much data in that small an area, cheaply...  Why
> bother with compression?  In the area of a 3.5" floppy you could put so
> much data that data compression will be reserved for information transmission
> and not storage (maybe).
> 	just a thought....

Because people will always want more data on their media!  People 10 years
ago were probably saying, "Gee, we wouldn't need compression if we could
fit 600 megabytes on a single disc."

Greg Bruno
gregb@amazon.sandiegoca.ncr.com
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: chinc@ecf.toronto.edu (CHIN CHIEN TING)
Subject: Re: Creative Labs CD-ROM fix
Keywords: CD CD-ROM Creative Labs SoundBlaster
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:50:40 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.144137.28185@brtph560.bnr.ca> ppaglia@bnr.ca (Peter Paglia P925) writes:
>
>I did have the same problem as other posters here have,
>where the CD player reports 'not ready' or somthing similar.
>The good news is that the fix (at least in my case) was easy and quick.
>I got one of those cd lens cleaner things, and ran it a few times.

So my theory is not totally wrong. 

>On a side note, a len cleaner CD will usually run about $20USD, (even for the
>'audio' versions.....as if there was a difference!) For a CD with a piece
>of felt glued to it is kind of expensive. The blurb on the box led me to 

Yes! Could some knowledgable ones shed some light onto this matter? I got
one of those Digital for SUNs demo CDROM that they send to everyone. And
it would be prefect as a wafer for a home made lens cleaner CD. 

But how thick should the felt be? The lens never touch a normal CD, right?
How about these two candidates for the felt material: (1) camera lens 
cleaning paper (too thin?), (2) head cleaning disk for 5.25" floppy drive
(will scratch the lens?)?

-- 
CHIN, Chien Ting 
Dept of Physics
University of Toronto                                  \ /
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Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: sramsdell@ws19.ips.iacd.honeywell.com (Steve Ramsdell)
Subject: Information on Sony HS-1200 CD_ROM drive?
Keywords: Sony HS-1200
Organization: Honeywell Industrial Automation & Control
Distribution: alt.cd-rom
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 18:24:59 GMT

I have seen ads recently for a Sony drive model HS-1200 that with
SCSI interface, 280ms access and 300KB transfer rate.  Is anyone
familiar with the drive, or how I could get information on it?
Is this the new high speed drive I have heard that Sony is coming
out with?  Is it any good?  Is it software compatible with the 541?

I am particularly interested in this last point, as I want to use it
with Windows NT, which has a very limited list of supported CD-ROM 
drives.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

-- 

Steve Ramsdell
Honeywell, Inc.
sramsdell@ips.iacd.honeywell.com
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: ARNOLD@MICRODES.MHS.COMPUSERVE.COM
Subject: Re: Re: Dual Adaptec 1542b a
Reply-To: ARNOLD@MICRODES.MHS.COMPUSERVE.COM
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 12:54:52 GMT

To: CDROM-L POSTINGS

>A second problem surfaced: seems that the ASPCDTSH driver can't control
more >than seven drives.  Or that's what it looks like.  As the eighth
drive is initialized, it >doesn't print the SCSI ID/LUN information like it
should, but just the ROM >information.  The drive is not accessable thru
MSCDEX (though the driver did get >loaded), it just says "drive not ready".
Tried changing SCSI ID, and it always >surfaces on the eighth drive.  If I
have just seven drives, no problem.

Unless I am missing something it appears you are trying to run 8 SCSI
CD-ROM drives from a single SCSI Host Adapter.  SCSI supports 8 Target IDs
(controllers), with one ID being used by the host adapter, leaving 7 TIDs
for devices.  Therefore you can only connect 7 CD-ROM drives per host
adapter.  SCSI also supports upto 8 Logical UNits (LUNs) per Target ID for
a theoretical max of 56 devices on a single SCSI Bus, but currently most
SCSI CD-ROM drives do not support slave drives as LUNs.  Hope this
information helps.

Best Regards,
Arnold Jones
arnold@microdes.mhs.compuserve.com
Micro Design International, Inc.
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: gloster@INFERENCE.COM ("Vance M. Gloster")
Subject: Apple CDROM drive
Reply-To: "Vance M. Gloster" <gloster@INFERENCE.COM>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 08:55:38 GMT

I have been happy with the Trantor cards I have owned.  They are
inexpensive and seem to work fine with any SCSI drive (I personally
have tried lots of them including the Pioneer 6-banger and all worked
fine).  There is not, however, an NT driver available for the Trantor.
You can load NT under DOS from the CD drive and then boot from the
hard drive.  This works fine, we tried it.

-Vance Gloster
 gloster@inference.com

  gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile) writes:

  >I need to use a CD-ROM player to install the SDK for windows
  >NT, and I would like to not have to buy a CD-ROM drive becuase
  >this is all I need to do with it at this time.  I have access
  >to an Apple CD-ROM drive at work, and I would like to be able
  >to use it with my pc.  I need to know what SCSI controller I would
  >need, and what drivers would be necessary to access this drive
  >from DOS.

  Trantor Systems
  (415) 770-1400
  (415) 770-9910 fax
  trantor@applelink.apple.com

  sells cards and drivers for DOS machines which will let an Apple CD-ROM
  drive work.  I haven't used them.

  --Brian Bechtel     blob@apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: mboom@ntg.com (Mike Boom)
Subject: Re: CD-ROM article.
Organization: New Technologies Group, Inc.  Palo Alto CA
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 17:29:06 GMT

Please indulge me in a novice question: what is a multisession CD drive,
and how does it differ from a single session CD drive?

Thanks,

Mike Boom
Xref: sparky alt.cd-rom:3069 gnu.misc.discuss:3001 misc.int-property:960
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Friday, 11 Sep 1992 01:02:02 EDT
From: <BACKD@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,gnu.misc.discuss,misc.int-property
Subject: Re: Time to boycott Photo CD
 <JIMB.92Sep4013256@occs.cs.oberlin.edu>

Philisophically speaking, the flames on Photo CD patents may be valid but
I think practically speaking they seem a little premature. The product has
received very little exposure.
I had the opportunity to see a Photo CD player today, to discuss the
some of the plans Kodak has for using Photo CD and to hear some of their
plans for licencing the read aspects of the technology. This information
is second hand, however, the people passing along the info (Phototech, Kingston
, Ontario) have the negative scanner that Kodak is using to digitize the image.

They tell me it will work like this:
At developing time you request CD transfer. Cost about $20 for a roll of 36
plus the cost of the disk (about $10). The disk can hold around 100 photos,
about 3 rolls of 36. When you develop rolls 2 and 3 you send along the disk
and pay just the $20 transfer costs or about $70 for 100 photos.

Kodak sells the reader necessary to view the images. A nice comercial CD
in three models that also doubles as an audio CD.

They have also licenced the CD-ROM read aspects to all CD-ROM manufacturers
except Magnavox and Amiga. Therefore XA complient readers should be able to
access the images to import into graphics programs.

If all of the above turns out to be accurate then the technology is relatively
inexpensive to generate the CDs and relatively easy to retrieve the image into
graphics packages or onto TV via their proprietory video play back reader.

It strikes me that this technology should have a tremendous impact on Kodak's
mirofiche, mirofilm document storage division.

Perhaps some one from Kodak could comment on the commercial implementation
of the Photo CD system and clear ups some of the concerns expressed in this
forum.
Don Back
Department of Biochemistry
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario. CANADA.
From: Ken_J_Siegel@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: CD-ROM Telephone Directories
Date: Tue,  8 Sep 92 19:02:56 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: alt

I too am interested in the differences between the the CD's which
contain telephone number information.  If replying through Email, please
send me a copy also.  I have ordered and am waiting to receive from DAK
the 3 disks from PhoneDisc USA (2 are residential phone numbers, one is
commercial numbers) and their $200 BSR drive.  But I am interested in 
hearing if there are better phone listings (residential) available.
                            Ken J Siegel
From: cprice@cowpas.waffle.atl.ga.us (Clyde Price)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: CD-ROM LIBRARIES OF TEXT
Date: 15 Sep 92 00:35:54 GMT
Organization: COW Pastures


        I've heard about CDs with Bibles & theological references, 
Shakespeare, and A. Conan Doyle.  I'm looking for other "libraries" of 
public-domain (or duplication-okayed) text materials.  
        My areas of special interest are "classic" novels, historical 
texts, biographies, textbooks in math & logic, history of science, and 
Christian & theological stuff.  (It doesn't need to be already on CD, but 
I really need to know what's already available.)
 
        [Mail replies to my Compuserve address preferred
        76616.3452@compuserve.com      ]
 
        I can post a compilation of replies if there's interest. Thanks.
 
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: lawson@netsun.mdc.com (Jim Lawson)
Subject: Loading MSCDEX and Mouse drivers high ?
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 05:44:49 GMT
Organization: MDSSC-SSD
Reply-To: Lawson%ssdvax.decnet@lbgwy.mdc.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Howdy,

Assuming I have enough upper memory, is it possible to load the MSCDEX cd-rom
and the Microsoft Mouse drivers into upper memory ?

If I do a lh mscdex it doesn't seem to load and if I do the same with the mouse
driver it doesn't go into upper memory.

I'm on a 386 20 mhz pc clone.

Thanks for the help !! :-)

--
Jim Lawson	Lawson%ssdvax.decnet@lbgwy.mdc.com
		Alt:	Lawson@netsun.mdc.com or Lawson@mdcbbs.com

Opinions/Comments expressed here are my own and no one elses !!
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Seeking CD-ROM storage and labeling ideas
From: nwchritton@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Date: 10 Sep 92 22:19:44 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

>> [stuff deleted]
>> I'd like to find a good way to label the edges of each jewel box
>> and (temporarily) label the edges of a caddy so that titles
>> can be picked out from a normal audio CD rack by looking at
>> the edges only.
>> 
>> Any good ideas for labeling or better schemes for storage?
>> 
> 
> I have somewhat similar requirements. The space available for labelling
> the caddies is narrow and one is forced to use the labels that come with
> the caddies. Some of them peel off good, others make a mess. So unless
> I wish to permanently label caddies, I don't bother. I wish caddies will
> come with a slot to insert small labels....
> 
> I have numbered the slots of the rack and I have a plastic sleeve, containing
> an index of the caddies' contents. This enforces the discipline of returning
> caddies to their slots, but it works. I keep the index sheet is a simple
> WP document and update it and print a laser copy, when there is a revision
> of contents.
> 
> Re: Jewel boxes. Most jewel boxes do come with titles on the spine, so it
> is not a problem. In those cases, where the CD's come in sleeves and I
> want to use a jewel box, I have a style sheet in Ventura (one can use any
> decent WP program), that will print the spine, crease mark, any text I
> want to print on the face and cut lines. I print this and cut, crease and
> pop out the cd holder, insert sheet and snap the cd holder again...



Or you can get on of those scribers (the little drill thingies) and scribe
a number on to the spine.

It's a little permanent, but hey, why not?
(You know that they're yours.!)

-Neil
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: dgh@gerbil.ecr.mu.OZ.AU (David Hook)
Subject: Re: Cheap CD recording system?
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 02:57:17 GMT

mssrh@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Scott R. Hutinger) writes:
: Has anyone used the Optical Media International CD Recording system?
: This allows one to create CD's (write once) for mastering, replication,
: or better yet, checking out how well Quicktime Moov's have been opt.  
: ...
: 
: The main use would be for Mac HFS CD's.  I really don't care about other
: formats, but feel that the more formats the machine supports, the
: better.  I think most of them do support audio, yellow book, xa, cd-i
: etc...
: 
: Thanks for any information.
: 
: Scott Hutinger         mssrh@uxa.bgu.edu
: 
: 

We purchased our Philips CDD521 from Optical Media International,
including their QuickTOPiX ISO-9660 premastering software. This
runs under Windows 3.x and makes the CD production process very
simple; just point at a directory and write the contents to a CD.
It also has support for output to other devices such as SCSI tape
drives. I believe OMI have a Mac version of QuickTOPiX that will
produce HFS and ISO-9660 discs.

The CDD521 requires a reasonably fast host machine with a fast hard
disk. We use a 486/33, Adaptec 1542B SCSI adapter and a Seagate
ST41650N hard disk. I'm not sure what an equivalent Mac configuration
would be. The CD writer has support for (red book I think), yellow book,
XA, CD-I and Photo-CD (write and read multi-session). Although the
hardware supports these formats, the host software has to know how
to write them. OMI have various add-ons to the QuickTOPiX
product that provide this support.


OMI's phone number is +1 408 376 3511, fax: +1 408 376 3519


Peter Grant
Connect 4
Melbourne
Australia

Phone: +61 3 416 3477
Fax:   +61 3 416 0471

Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama)
Subject: Hitachi CD-ROM 3750 (SCSI) driver?
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 08:38:18 GMT

	Help!

	I need quickly Hitachi CD-ROM 3750 SCSI software driver.
	Is it available somewhere for download. I guess not. So
	please, if you have it somewhere please send me email.

	Thank you.

	-harri-
-- 
///// Harri Valkama (hv@uwasa.fi, NeXTmail: hv@bacall.uwasa.fi)
///// University of Vaasa, P.O.Box 700, 65101 VAASA, Finland 
///// Telephone:+358 61 3248364  fax:+358 61 3248465
///// Anonymous ftp site moderator at garbo.uwasa.fi (128.214.87.1)
Xref: sparky alt.cd-rom:2960 comp.periphs.scsi:4373
From: seitz@netcom.com (Matthew Seitz)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Dual Adaptec 1542b and ASPI functions ?
Date: 4 Sep 92 21:13:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.=3mnxc=.seitz
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

For my employer's CD-ROM networking product (CD NET), we load ASPI4DOS once
and specify both port addresses (device=ASPI4DOS /p330 /p334 /d).  Works great
for us.
-- 
					Matthew Seitz
					seitz@netcom.com
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: rene@Ingres.COM (rene)
Subject: MMUK and interrupt 7
Organization: Ingres Corporation bv, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: 11 Sep 92 14:54:55 GMT

I recently upgraded my slow Mitsumi CD-ROM and SoundBlaster card to the
much promising MultiMedia Upgrade Kit from Creative Labs.

I did a standard installation, which means Interrupt 7, I/O 220h and
DMA 1 settings.  I tried the test-sbp.exe file, which found the device
on the above settings.  However, all the software that was deliverd as
demo, such as mmdemo (mmplayer with some .fli animation) broke.

Could there be any reason that a PC refuses to work with devices on
interrupt 7 ?  There are no other device-cards installed other than
the MMUK card.  The PC is a 386/40 with standard himem.sys and emm386.exe
installed.

Thanks for any info.

Rene
====*

Rene Bonvanie		Ingres Corporation
rene@ingres.com		Nieuwegein
			The Netherlands
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom