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From: heim@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Gerald Heim)
Subject: Re: Drivers for Philips CM205
Organization: organisiert? ich? ach was!
Distribution: alt
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:08:21 GMT

In article <199209010923.AA16396@gmdzi.gmd.de> Holger.Effertz@GMD.DE writes:

   Does anyone know if Philips plans to write OS/2 2.0 and/or Windows/NT
   drivers?
   If yes, where can I get them ?

   Send mail to: effertz@gmd.de

		me, too :-)

	Thanks a lot
From: ice@socrates.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Kodak Photo CD Access available -- excerpts from PC Week
Keywords: photo cd kodak windows mac
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:23:06 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland University College

From PC Week, August 24, 1992, p 30:
"Kodak Melds CD Images, Mac and Win Apps"

   Eastman Kodak Co recently released Photo CD Access, which is
designed to allow users to integrate CD images into any Windows
or Macintosh Application.
   With the Photo CD Access software, users of Mac System 6.0.5 or 7
and Windows 3.0 or 3.1 can incorporate Kodak Photo CD images into
their apps
...
   Requires a CD ROM XA (Extended Architecture) drive
...
   Kodak sells the software directly.  $39.95, 1-800-242-2424.
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile)
Subject: Apple CDROM drive
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 12:00:26 GMT

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.  Has anyone successfully done this before?  I would
GREATLY appreciate some insight, because all of the drivers you
need to run a cd-rom drive from is unnecessarily complicated, and
I wouldn't know where to start.

Mike
gilem@rpi.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: lawson@netsun.mdc.com (Jim Lawson)
Subject: Re: IRQ2=trouble ?
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 02:14:07 GMT
Organization: MDSSC-SSD
Reply-To: Lawson%ssdvax.decnet@lbgwy.mdc.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

And thanks for those replys !!

I'll probably stick with the IRQ2 setting till something bad happens :-}

--
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
From: stidolph@leland.Stanford.EDU (Wayne Stidolph)
Subject: NEC CDR-84 (CD-ROM) on Adaptec 1542B with OS/2: how?
Reply-To: stidolph@gtewd.mtv.gsc.gte.com
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 06:17:30 GMT


I just bought an NEC CDR-84 (external CD ROM); I cannot get anything
to work... I've never had a CD-ROM before, so my ignorance is near-
complete. (I did get and read the FAQ from cdrom.com - and 4 of 
their CD's :) 

My setup is 1 SCSI disk (from which I boot) on the internal connector
cable of the AHA-1542B, and the NEC as Target 1 on the external cable.
No other SCSI devices. System is 486/50 with 16MB RAM and a Stealth VRAM
card. Logitech Bus mouse, and IRQ 3, 4 used for a COM card. LPT1 on
IRQ7.

I patched the OS/2 CDROM.SYS to read 'NEC    ' (from 'TOSHIBA')
and changed its name to NECCD.SYS; then, I put a line
DEVICE=\OS2\NECCD.SYS in my CONFIG.SYS. When I boot, the drive light
flickers on the CDR-84, I get a "IBM CD-ROM Version 2.01 1 device
attached" message, and I get another icon added to my drives object.
The bad news is, opening the CD-ROM object yields SYS0049 "device
not functioning" error box. (If I remove the CDR-84 terminator, I get
error SYS0031, which reads almost identically...) Then, no matter
whether I retry or return the error code, the error box re-occurs;
about 4 times. Then it clears, and I'm back to square one. 

I tried the Selective Install (as directed in the "manual" for adding
after initial setup) but the CD-ROM isn't on the display screen, nor
can I find much in the Information object...

The CDR-84 did not come with any software or useful installation
instructions. I phoned NEC and they sent me a disk of drivers for
their Trantor boards - nothing on the Adaptec. I haven't got it to work
under DOS/Windows, either - but that's later :)

What obvious step am I missing? I've got a lot going on, and I get to
this only at day's end, so please forgive my incoherence, clout me
upside the head, and say..."You dummy! Put this in config.sys:"
and save my weekend!

  Wayne
-- 
Wayne  stidolph@gtewd.mtv.gsc.gte.com or stidolph@leland.stanford.edu 
What I say is from me only. I try to be accurate, but I make mistakes: sorry.
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Subject: Re: Groliers Encyclopedia source: $19-$77
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 04:36:43 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

muoto@nunki.usc.edu ("Olivetti") writes:
: The name of the company is ERM/Electronic Liquidators
: Their number is 800-776-5865, their FAX is 617-665-4856 and their
: other number is 617-662-9363, and their prices and unbelievable.
: Here are just a few samples:
: 
: Grolier's Encyclopedia (TEXT ONLY)			$19.00
: Grolier's Encyclopedia (IBM: Sound/Photo)               $77.00
: Grolier's Encyclopedia (IBM: Photo/no sound)            $49.00
: Grolier's Encyclopedia (Mac: Sound/Photo)		$77.00

I bought the Mac version a couple of months ago. It works perfectly, 
of course. (I got the full sound/photo version for $77).

Packaging is bland...definitely not the normal Grolier's box, and the
shipping and handling is a bit steep, around $8. Still, a good deal.

-- 
..........................................................................
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tcmay@netcom.com       | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
408-688-5409           | knowledge, reputations, information markets, 
W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA  | black markets, collapse of governments.
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From: ericy@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Eric Youngdale)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Matsushita-Kotobuki CD-ROM
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:14:20 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <9208251947.AA08050@quaestor> "Vance M. Gloster" <gloster@INFERENCE.COM> writes:
>  Has anyone heard of a Matsushita-Kotobuki CD-ROM drive? I believe the
>  company is connected to Panasonic, so this could be one of Panasonics
>  drives. I don't have a model number with it, but I was wondering if the
>  drive would be compatible with everything I'm likely to use it for (under
>  MS-DOS, Linux (386 Unix), and maybe AmigaDOS).
>
>Matsushita (the i is silent) is a very large company in Japan.  Their
>products are marketed under the 'Panasonic' and 'Quasar' brand names
>in the US, and under the 'National' brand name in the Far East.

	While we are on the subject of these inexpensive CDROM drives, does
anyone know what type of interface these use?  Are they SCSI or something else,
and if they are not SCSI, what are they?

	The reason that I am asking is that I did part of the work to add
support for SCSI cdroms to Linux, and I am curious as to whether these
cheap drives can also be made to work.

-Eric
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.periphs.scsi
From: rwang@cctwin.ee.ntu.edu.tw (Rome Wang)
Subject: Re: CD-Rom & Adaptec 1542b
Organization: National Taiwan University , ROC
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:13:18 GMT
Newsreader: MS Windows WinVN

In article <1992Aug20.003726.3653@spcvxb.spc.edu>, terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) says:
>  I have a Sony SCSI CD (541, I think) at address 5 on a 1542B. Works fine.
>
    But my Sony CDU8012(for Sun) doesn't work with 1542B, I can play audio CD , but can't
    read ISO9660 CD, Is there another driver program for Sony CDU8012? Any one success?
    By the way, I want to contact Sony BBS +1 408 372-7426,but no modem answer, did they
    change phone no? Please help me !
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: funka@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Andreas Funk)
Subject: Gif's Galore Question
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:09:57 GMT

Walnut Creek CD-Rom: Gif's Galore:

One Question:

Directory \gifs\food
File: eggs.gif

Are these really EGGS?
I'm not sure....

Any comments appreciated

Funky

Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: AISTERWI@EKU.BITNET
Subject: Controlling MSCDEX via a 'C' program
Reply-To: AISTERWI@EKU.bitnet
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:17:00 GMT

Hello. I just finished a couple of programs (in 'C') which
exercise most of the calls MSCDEX supports. One of the programs
excepts command line arguments to eject cd, lock, read &display sectors,
play audio cd sectors, reset, etc. Another program is a simple
audio CD play program (with mouse interface) that plays audio CDs on
CDROM drives that support audio.
My question is where can I send these two programs (and source code
if anyone is interested) so that others can take advantage of them.
thanks. Earl Terwilliger AISTERWI@EKU.bitnet
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: aa473@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU (James Brown)
Subject: Re: BSR CD-ROM Drive?
Reply-To: James Brown <aa473@cleveland.Freenet.Edu>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 11:16:02 GMT

>
>...need some help... What do you think of specifications of
>380-millisecs...and interface...for IBM-compatible drive?
>They are throwing in 1991 Microsoft Bookself, The Family Doctor,
>and Battle Chess.  $399 is the cost.  Thanks in advance. Howard
>
>
This is the drive from DAK.  I have had mine a little over a week
now and I Like IT.  I had questions about what the specs translated
to in real world speed that I posted here and ask DAK Tech support
about.  There is no real way to answer untill you try it. I guess
slow too slow etc is in the eye of the beholder.

Speaking of slow DAK appears to go out of their way to be slow.
Not counting the out of stock back order delay of over a month it
took them two weeks to get the package from  Ca to Ohio.  They
apperently work hard to be slower then the old Pony Express.  According
to one of their customer service people my order was put on their
truck and taken to the UPS Terminal in either CHICAGO or NEW JERSEY
for shipment to me in Ohio.  I guess that explains the $48.00 I was
charged for S&H which would have covered overnight Air on UPS with
about $20.00 for handling.

I wrote to complain if I get more then a form letter explaination
I post it here.

Jim Brown

PS  Walnut Creek had my CD here in two days from the day I ordered
late one afternoon US Mail.
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: J.Beech@SHEFFIELD-CITY-POLY.AC.UK (Julian Beech)
Subject: Re: When am I going to see books... Real books on CD?
Reply-To: Julian Beech <J.Beech@SHEFFIELD-CITY-POLY.AC.UK>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 11:56:29 GMT

Date:          Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:37:14 GMT
Reply-to:      Jaye Mathisen <osyjm@EDU.MONTANA.CS>
From:          Jaye Mathisen <osyjm@EDU.MONTANA.CS>
Subject:       When am I going to see books... Real books on CD?
To:            Multiple recipients of list CDROM-L <CDROM-L@uccvma.ucop.edu>

>When am I going to be able to buy a book, say the latest scifi novel
>on CD?

>I hate watching my books get trashed from handling, and other
>problems, it'd
>be cool to have lots of artwork, or even CD's of "the Complete
>Stainless Steel Rat", or somesuch...

>Anybody have some futuristic guesses as to when this kind of thing
>might happen?
--
> Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
> 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
> Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717  osyjm@cs.montana.edu

    It won't happen for a long time, till people are prepared to write
for the sake of getting works read rather than profit. (Any budding
Sci-Fi authors, this is your chance, I for one would love to have
books in this format)  The cost of such works by a succesfull
author would be high, as few would buy on CDROM and if stored as text
files how in hell can you enforce copywrite.  It's a sad fact that
such works would be RIPPED off in big way.  If its readers they want,
then yes this is an exellent way for storing books.  But the world we
live in works on profit (You normally get what you pay for).

                    Sorry to be negative, but if anyone would produce
modern works on CD, I would support it, but the price has to be
affordable to the masses...

                            Julian (Joules) Beech
                          Sheffield Hallam University

                            Books:- The path to the future has
                                    has already been written.
From: 2719weberj@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Drivers for Philips CM205
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 04:25:42 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 2719weberj@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsd.csd.mu.edu


>It is too premature for vendors to develop and deliver NT drivers. No
>information from Philips on either of these, but I understand that there
>is definitely no plan to develop an OS/2 native mode driver.
>
>GeSS
>--
>Gess Shankar      |<><>|Internet: gess@knex.Gwinnett.COM                |<><>|
>Knowledge Exchange|<><>|{rutgers,ogicse,gatech}!emory!gwinnett!knex!gess|<><>|

Speaking of NT, are there any other BETA testers out there who have NEC-CDR74
CD-ROMs?  I can not seem to get the thing to install correctly for the life
of me, and I have no clue why...actually I suppose I should call Microsoft
again, but the last 2 times the response has been well..let use see, what we
can due by the next BETA..oh well I guess that is why it is called a BETA.

What I have gotten installed is really cool though

JOE

Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Subject: Dual Adaptec 1542b and ASPI functions ?
Followup-To: alt.cd-rom
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance Company
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:53:10 GMT

I have a CD-ROM net server machine which has up to now had one Adaptec 1542b
"feeding" six CD-ROM drives using ASPI drivers.  Now I'm supposed to add two
Pioneer 6-disk changers plus two normal CD-ROM drives, which means dual SCSI
cards.  I've configured the SCSI cards so they don't step on each others toes
(also disabled the BIOS, since I only have CD-ROM's on both buses -- even my
hard disk is AT/id).  When I load one ASPI4DOS driver at the appropriate I/O
address either of the cards work for their device drivers.

The Pioneer changers seem to work properly using the beta ASPI drivers from
the Pioneer BBS (except that Wilson MLA (which is *very* finicky about its
discs) doesn't seem to recognize its disc for some reason (it does look OK
with "dir" though)... I'll have to check to see if it's due to the Pioneer
driver or just something else in my new configuration).

If I load two ASPI4DOS drivers, one for each I/O address, only the first
one will be recognized by the following device drivers (maybe I should load
just one and specify two I/O addresses ? -- I just thought of that, will
have to try it) and I will get duplicate entries for all the CD-ROMs on
the first card.  Is there some way to specify for which card/which ASPI the
device drivers are for ?

I did not receive any ASPI manuals with my card.  The ASPI stuff was sent
to me as a sort of an afterthought by the company which sold the card, it
was a diskcopy with a handwritten label, so all I have is the readme file.
The card was an Unisys OEM, so it had the Unisys software (which did not
include ASPI).

Is there a good ASPI-what-you-can-do-with-it guide available on the net ?
Adaptec ?  Pioneer ?  Anyone ?
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Xref: sparky alt.cd-rom:2959 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:2762 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:23443
From: ebrown@bud_light.kodak.com (Eric Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Adaptek CD-ROM drivers so expensive?
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:21:34 GMT
Reply-To: ebrown@tap.kodak.com
Followup-To: alt.cd-rom
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company


I have the Adaptek 1542b scsi-master kit and a scsi cd-rom drive.
Of course I need a driver for the scsi cd-rom. Finally I figure
out that I need something called the ASW410 Adaptek Multimedia Kit.
Why do I have to pay $90 for this! I just want to access my cd-rom.
For another $30 I could probably buy a complete other 8-bit scsi
board with drivers that is plenty fast enough for a cd-rom. Of
course, it probably wouldn't be adaptek.

What's the deal. I already payed $250+ for the adaptek board. Why
do I have to pay $90 more for a lously CD-ROM driver?

I mean the scsi-kit from adaptek is available for $150 I hear. The
scsi-II spec and ISO-9660 specs are available. I'm going to find
out what adaptek wants for royalties on their developer kit and
write my own CD-ROM driver and sell it for less. I just don't get
it.

I hope I'm missing something or don't understand everything. All
I know is its taken me over 30 miniutes on the phone already trying
to figure out what I need.

Eric
ebrown@tap.kodak.com
--
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Street Atlas CD-ROM 
Distribution: world
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 01:30:19 GMT
Organization: Crynwr Software

In article <1992Sep1.135132.5417@engage.pko.dec.com> gettys@regent.enet.dec.com writes:
   In article <715145423snx@crynwr.com>, nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)    writes...

   >   They say that they like to get reports on any errors found so that
   >   they can corect them.
   > 
   >Yes, and I wanted to know what kind of compensation they were willing
   >to offer for extensive error reports.  Answer: none.  So, they're not
   >getting my 20 or so corrections for St. Lawrence County, NY.

           I find it a bit ludicrous that the poster would seem to feel that he
   should be compensated for his input (unless he undertook to do a SUBSTANTIAL
   amount of data verification of course). 

Well, I've been on EVERY road outside of village limits in a
hundred-square mile area of St. Lawrence County.  What do you
consider SUBSTANTIAL?  And I wasn't expecting to be fairly
compensated for my time, but I expected *something*.  You know, like
maybe return postage?

           Another small point - on the cow path - The official maps
   of the town where i live show numerous paper streets (rights of
   way which have NEVER had a road on them) which cannot be told on
   the map from a real street. This is the kind of data the DeLorme
   depends on. How can they possibly know when the data isn't there??

How can they ever find out when they depend on volunteer, catch as
catch can, corrections?

-russ <nelson@crynwr.com>  I'm proud to be a humble Quaker!
Crynwr Software            Crynwr Software sells packet driver support.
11 Grant St.               315-268-1925 Voice
Potsdam, NY 13676          315-268-9201 FAX
From: HARVEY@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Microsof Bookshelf
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:57:10 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

In article <1992Aug27.124045.7591@bull.it>, alfredo@bull.it (Alfredo Cotroneo)
says:
>
>Would be anybody kind enough to explain WHAT 'Microsoft Bookshelf' is?
>(What is there in the CD-ROM, and how useful it is?)
>
>Thanks.
>
>Alfredo, Milano, Italy
>email: a.cotroneo@it12.bull.it
There are two versions of Bookshelf, one for DOS and one for Windows. The
Windows version is MPC. It includes:
Concise Columbia Encyclopedia
The American Heritage Dictionary
Bartletts Familiar Quotations
The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
Roget's II Electronic Thesaurus
World Almanac and Book of Facts
Hammond Atlas

The DOS version does not include the Atlas.

I have both and I use the Windows version all the time. If you have a
sound board installed you can get musical examples as well as narrations
to some of the animated subjects. The dictionary will pronounce most of
the words. When you search for a word it will search all of the references
if you want. It also allows cut and paste. I have cut articles from the
enclopedia along with graphics and pasted into a WFW document. I think it
is a great asset to any CD-ROM collection.

Harold
Harvey@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu

All opinions expressed are mine.
Xref: sparky alt.cd-rom:2826 comp.periphs.scsi:4270
From: gess@knex.Gwinnett.COM (Gess Shankar)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Dual Adaptec 1542b and ASPI functions ?
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:42:52 GMT
Organization: Knowledge Exchange, GA, US of A

otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes:

> 
> If I load two ASPI4DOS drivers, one for each I/O address, only the first
> one will be recognized by the following device drivers (maybe I should load
> just one and specify two I/O addresses ? -- I just thought of that, will
> have to try it) and I will get duplicate entries for all the CD-ROMs on
> the first card.  Is there some way to specify for which card/which ASPI the
> device drivers are for ?
> 
Well, the doc says that you need to load two drivers if you have two cards.
If BIOS is enabled, it must be enabled only for the first card. Are you
trying 330h and 334h as the port addresses?

You not only must have different post addresses, but also different
DMA Channel and Interrupt Channel for each host adapter. And if you are
using 1542's, obviously you would need to disable the floppy controller on
card # 2 etc..

Example given in the book is:

DEVICE=ASPI4DOS.SYS      (assumes 300h)
DEVICE=ASPI4DOS.SYS  /P334      (card #2 set for Port address: 334h)

I don't think that there is any resource other than Adaptex. Have you tried
the adaptex ftp or email address?

GeSS
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Knowledge Exchange|<><>|{rutgers,ogicse,gatech}!emory!gwinnett!knex!gess|<><>|
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: alfredo@bull.it (Alfredo Cotroneo)
Subject: Microsof Bookshelf
Reply-To: alfredo@minerva1.bull.it (Alfredo Cotroneo)
Organization: BULL ITALIA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 12:40:45 GMT

Would be anybody kind enough to explain WHAT 'Microsoft Bookshelf' is?
(What is there in the CD-ROM, and how useful it is?)

Thanks.

Alfredo, Milano, Italy
email: a.cotroneo@it12.bull.it
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom