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From: kirk.jensen@spacebbs.com (Kirk Jensen)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Pioneer DRM600
Date: 2 Sep 92 07:39:00 GMT
Reply-To: kirk.jensen@spacebbs.com (Kirk Jensen)
Distribution: usa
Organization: SPACE BBS - Menlo Park, CA - 10 Lines + 4gB - 415-323-4193

To: jack@admin.mport.COM (Jack Craig)
JC>
JC>just curious how software can provide concurrent search
JC>access to 5 of 6 disks at once with only one drive unit?
JC>
JC>dont tell me, let me guess a great caching scheme? ;)
JC>
JC>this is a serious query. i work with the pioneer on sgi and svr4.
JC>i would love to improve my search bandwidth in any way possible.

Trade the unit in on a Toshiba 4-stack. Then you can use the disconnect
feature of SCSI-II to make multiple reads possible. The Pioneer is always
going to be a single-drive changer, not a high-performance multi-drive
solution.
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From: gwe3409@bcsaic.boeing.com (Gerald Edgar)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.multimedia
Subject: NEC 84 CD-Rom Drive Availability
Keywords: CD-ROM Drive, NEC
Date: 19 Aug 92 16:48:08 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Boeing Computer Services, Seattle

I have been trying to find the NEC-84 CD-ROM Drive at a reasonable price
(<$600). It seems to be back-ordered for two (!) months. Does anyone
have this drive in stock? Please post or mail responses. By the way,
while Computability does have a reasonable price, their shipping is
twice what it is else where, and they have a no return policy, ugh.

Gerald Edgar
gwe3409@bcsaic.boeing.com
I speak only for myself.

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know."
                                                      Mark Twain
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.periphs.scsi
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Subject: Re: CD-Rom & Adaptec 1542b
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:53:19 GMT

rwang@cctwin.ee.ntu.edu.tw (Rome Wang) writes:
>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 !
*---
The sony drive as set up for the Sun uses a non-typical block size.
I don't know if it can be changed other than swapping ROMs, but if
you can change it, it should solve the problem.
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Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: jimb@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Jim Blandy)
Subject: Architecture CD's wanted
Organization: I see no organization here.
Distribution: alt
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 04:44:29 GMT
X-Posted-From: occs.cs.oberlin.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


I'm teaching American Architecture in its Social Context, a 3 credit
college course.  I am looking for a CD of images for a) American
Buildings, b) History of world architecture images, c) Understanding
landforms and/or d) American or world wide/multi-cultural survey of
land use patterns.

Can anyone tell me whether such CDs already exist?  What indices should
I check to find them? 

Is anyone using CD images like these for a similar course?  
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Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: 18084DEP@MSU.BITNET (Dave Peterson)
Subject: Device Drivers
Reply-To: Dave Peterson <18084DEP@MSU.bitnet>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:39:04 GMT

I have heard that on cd rom  drives that a person will need different
drivers for each environment that one may work in.  Such as different
Dos versions, Win 3.1, Lan Manager, etc.
My questions, are these drivers available thru FTP?
How well does each driver work in its home environment?
And what drives seem to work well with most environments?

Thanx,
Dave

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From: "steven baldassarra" <steven.baldassarra@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: finally! my toshiba 3
Date: 25 Aug 92 21:28:17 EST
Reply-To: "steven baldassarra" <steven.baldassarra@canrem.com>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Canada Remote Systems


SN>After a couple of months fighting with my dealer, Adaptec and Toshiba
SN>trying to get our two Toshiba 3301E (the external model) to work with
SN>either an Adaptec 1522 or 1542b, I finally convinced Toshiba to
SN>give me a copy of their proprietary cdrom driver and IT WORKS!!!!
SN>The Adaptec driver for Toshiba cdrom drives works with the older
SN>Toshiba 3201, supposedly works for 3301B (the internal model),
SN>but did not work for the 3301E (altho I have received a couple of
SN>emails indicating otherwise?!?!?).  The Toshiba driver is for Adaptec
SN>1540 and 1542a, but also works for 1542b and 1522.  I called Adaptec
SN>gave them the above info and told them to fix their drivers (I figured
SN>that since we paid $100 for the drivers, they should be obligated
SN>to make 'em work)

If you are paying $100 for CD-ROM only driver from Adaptec. You should
really pay $100 for Corel SCSI software (drivers for DOS, OS/2, Novell,
Windows, and Tape Backup software). It works great with my IBM external
and internal CD-ROM units, aka Toshiba XM-3232.

Steven
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From: doug.moore@canrem.com (doug moore)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: tender
Date: 2 Sep 92 00:43:40 GMT
Reply-To: "doug moore" <doug.moore@canrem.com>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

TO: ALL

The Office of Legislative Counsel invites proposals for the
preparation, prodcution, and possibly joint marketing of the
statutes and regulations of Ontario on CD-ROM disk.

The Request for Proposal is available as of 9:00 a.m. Toronto
time, September 1, 1992 from:

  Ministry of Government Services
  Public Tenders Office
  Room M-1-48, Macdonald Block
  900 Bay Street
  Toronto, Ontario, Canada M7A 1N3
  Tel. 1-(416)-327-2572, Fax 1-(416)-327-2575

Please request Form O45M (Tender LC92-555).

Bids must be received at the above office no later than 3:00 pm
local Toronto time, Monday, October 5, 1992.
Any or the lowest bid not necessarily accepted.

NOTE: All requests for the Request for Proposal must be made
to the above, and NOT via e-mail or network mail.
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Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Subject: Re: MSCDEX HELP PLEASE!!!
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:25:37 GMT

pauls@trsvax.tandy.com writes:

> [discussion of MSCDEX parameters]

>mscdex /{drive letter}:{drive handle}

>where {drive letter} is the letter of the next available drive (usually D)

>note that the drive letter is not the drive letter mscdex will use, it will
>"assign" the logical drive to the next letter available. In other words, if
>you already have c,d,e in a hard drive, the cdrom then becomes f: EVEN
>THOUGH you 'told' mscdex to use d: (why this is, I have no idea, it just
>works).

For one thing, in the case you cite by the time that MSCDEX is invoked
you already have a D: drive.  It would be rather impolite for MSCDEX
to suddenly reassign the D: drive letter after previous programs had
already started to use it to refer to the real drive.

The assignment rules as I see them are that the requested drive letter will
be assigned as long as it is not beyond LASTDRIVE and has not previously
been assigned.  Thus in the example above if LASTDRIVE=G then any request
to assign the CD-ROM to drive letters E, F, or G will be honored.  MSCDEX
will abort if the parm calls for a drive letter of H or beyond.

(I would have expected it to abort also if the requested drive letter was
already in use.  I'm not sure that I like the idea that it will quietly
assign a drive letter other than the one I specified...)

Note that this means that you can have a gap in the drive letters.  I
make use of this to keep the drive letter for my CD-ROM constant (J:)
even though other devices may or may not be powered up at boot time.
Now if I could just convince RAMDRIVE to accept a specific letter
specification...

Joe Morris / MITRE
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: Holger.Effertz@GMD.DE
Subject: Drivers for Philips CM205
Reply-To: Holger.Effertz@GMD.DE
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 09:23:38 GMT

I recently bought a Philips CD-Rom drive CM205 with host adapter Card
CM250.
I learned that it has no SCSI-type Interface.
The drive works fine under DOS and Windows but, as far as I know, there are
no OS/2 drivers that support it.
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

                                Thank you !
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From: U47041@uicvm.uic.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: wanted: software for cd players
Date: 4 Sep 92 13:53:49 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago



hi there,my question is the folowing :
is there any program to turn my (portable)
cd player into a cd  rom ?
cd player d14 sony
system compaq lte lite 25 ( pc clone ) running dos 5.00
thanx in advance
u47041@uicvm.bitnet
u47041@uicvm.cc.uic.edu
kapoulas@lac.math.uic.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,rec.photo
From: jpglori@srv.PacBell.COM (John P. Gloria)
Subject: Re: Irritated at software aspects of Photo-CD
Organization: Pacific * Bell
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:55:38 GMT

In article <l9nn8tINNi28@almaak.usc.edu> ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
>When I first heard of Photo CD, I said "Great!", thinking that the
>images would be on disk in a format which is easy to manipulate with
>almost any publicly available software.
>
>Instead, I seem to be getting a grimmer picture where Kodak is not
>extremely interested in making the file formats etc. public, let alone
>gifting a translator to pbm into the public domain.
>
>So far the only software I have heard mentioned has been binaries for
>PCs and Macs, and I have no intentions of ever using a PC or a Mac :-).
>
>So -- do you know different?  Is it going to be the case that C source
>to decode the files is going to be freely available?  Is there going
>to be anything painful about working with photo CD from Unix?
>
>(I, for one, will strictly avoid Photo CD if the answers to the
>above questions is No).
>
>
You have to consider that Kodak has the licensing rights and in
addition, the MAC platform has a somewhat head start in this area.
In addition, this is an open market. According to the Sept. issue
of PHOTOgraphic magazine, many of the prime electronics-hardware makers
will be producing Photo CD-related products.  Software companies have
also been jumping on the Photo CD arena: companies like Apple, Intel,
Philips, Pioneer, Sony, Toshiba, ImageIn, Media Cybernetic, Corel,
Micrographics, and SUN MICROSYSTEMS (who, inidentally, make some
of the hardware for the Photo CD to Imaging Workstation).

IMHO, whoever gets the headstart and their products are viable, is 
academic. I don't care if it is the MAC/DOS platform.  Of course, I would 
prefer the product/software to work on my SPARC 2.  If I could only
convince my boss the justification for the software, etc., for my
SPARC 2. :-)

If I had the capital, the Photo CD arena would be a good investment!
-- 
        ---------  John Gloria - jpglori@pacbell.com	--------	
 		"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination
	       is out of focus."   -     Mark Twain
From: charles.berlinguette@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Charles Berlinguette) 
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: PIONEER DRM600-A & BUSTEK
Date: 29 Aug 92 21:38:00 GMT
Reply-To: charles.berlinguette@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Charles Berlinguette) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Outland BBS-UUCP

I have a Pioneer DRM600-a multi-disk CD-ROM player and a BUSTEK 542 SCSI
controller and am having alot of problems getting both of them to work
together...

I am using SCSI Express driver software for the CD-ROM and when i try
and access the CD-ROM, it comes back with an error CDR103-Disk not in
High Sierra or ISO9660 format. The trouble with this, i have had
experiences with other drives and these same disks are readable on this
other drive.

If you've used this combination, I'd like to hear what you done to get
this combination to work properly.

PS If you know the phone number for BUSTEK it would be MOST helpful!

Leave Email to:
charles.berlinguette@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
PS Reply if you get this, as a test of the software here.
From: gess@knex.Gwinnett.COM (Gess Shankar)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Drivers for Philips CM205
Date: 3 Sep 92 12:02:57 GMT
Organization: Knowledge Exchange, GA, US of A

Holger.Effertz@GMD.DE writes:

> I recently bought a Philips CD-Rom drive CM205 with host adapter Card
> CM250.
> I learned that it has no SCSI-type Interface.
> The drive works fine under DOS and Windows but, as far as I know, there are
> no OS/2 drivers that support it.
> 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
> 
>                                 Thank you !

Highly unlikely in the case of OS/2, unless Philips comes up with the
goodies. You will have to use the CD-Rom only in a specifically booted
version of Dos session.

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
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From: herrod@crchh235.NoSubdomain.NoDomain
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Soundblaster Multi-media package
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:23:10 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, Tx

Has anyone had any experience with the Soundblaster Pro Multimedia upgrade? It comes
with a 390ms CD-ROM (made by some Panasonic-owned manufacturer), the Soundblaster Pro,
and about 6 disks (MS Bookshelf, Sherlock Holmes, MS Works, Macromind Action, etc.) 
The salesman said that the CD-ROM is connected directly to the soundblaster which would
give me advantages over a typical SCSI set-up. Does anyone have any support or criticism
of this package? It sells for $600.

Thanks for any help you can give,
Steve Herrod

PS. Please post your responses as I have no e-mail
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: greg@coombs.anu.edu.au (Greg Price)
Subject: HELP NEEDED: Info on Sound Galaxy CDROM card
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
Date:  2 Sep 92 09:54:03 GMT


Hi there, I asked this a little while back and got no response and my
level of desparation is increasing.....

I have a Sound Galaxy Card connected to a Panasonic CDROM drive and I
need some low level programming info to drive the device from another
o/s. (386BSD). I need info relevent to writing a device driver. The
DOS driver is copyright to Aztech Systems Pte Ltd. If anyone can help
me find the info, point me in a direction, or anything, please let me
know. The retailer I bought it from is drawing blanks in finding out
information.

Thanks,
Greg

(greg@coombs.anu.edu.au)

Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: 75300.1324@COMPUSERVE.COM (Nick Arnett)
Subject: Time to boycott Photo CD
Reply-To: Nick Arnett <75300.1324@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:45:57 GMT

Attn: CDROM-L
                       Subject:
Time:6:25 PM
  OFFICE MEMO          Time to boycott Photo CD
Date:8/27/92
Mike Axman writes, "...probably not Fuji since they're on our side in
this argument..."

Not totally.  Although Fuji has licensed PhotoCD, it's also working
(with Zoran) on an alternative that offers enhancements aimed
primarily at digital cameras, which Kodak *doesn't* seem to be
encouraging.  Somebody mentioned the professional digital camera back
that Kodak offers for Nikons, but that's not a PhotoCD capture
device.  It's uncompressed raw RGB data, I believe.  Maybe YUV... but
not compressed.

I think the real issue is whether Kodak will let anyone else support
*encoding* of PhotoCD.  To do so only under license is fine, but I
don't see anyone saying that they're doing so, so I'm assuming (okay,
that's dangerous) that Kodak isn't licensing people to write
encoders; only decoders.

Gary Snow writes, "Why is that even an issue, there is a Photoshop
plug-in in the works that will allow you to just pull images off the
Photo-CD.  Then with Photoshop you could save them into whatever
format you wanted...."

Not so -- you can't save it in PhotoCD format if there's only a
decoder, no encoder.  What does one do after one uses PhotoShop to
alter a PhotoCD image -- save it as JPEG?  If there's no encoder,
then the user is forced to abandon PhotoCD after any changes.

Comparisons to formats such as PageMaker and such (which were made in
another message) aren't really valid, since those are used to
assemble final products that are often on paper.  Images are usually
intermediate products (they go into things like PageMaker files) and
may be used in electronic documents.
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: jon@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan Nowitz)
Subject: OS/2 and CD-ROM
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: ny
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:58:14 GMT

I have recently installed OS/2 on my 386SX machine.

I have been using my Creative Labs Multimedia Kit... the CD ROM drive
works fine from DOS, but not from OS/2; it does not show up as a drive in
the drive window, nor is it accessible from a DOS window.

Can anyone tell me how to set up my system to recognize the drive?

(I have already run the selective install cd support;
I am not as interested in accesing the drive from a DOS window as I am in
getting a disk icon and running applications from the D drive in OS/2)

Thank you.
Help via e-mail (jon@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu) would be appreciated.


Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: craig@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Craig Carpenter)
Subject: ERM / Chestnut software questions
Organization: Alchemy International
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 02:47:06 GMT


I just picked up the new shopper and noticed ERM's ad. Im kinda interested in
any comments on their software , especially  the chestnut stuff, such as Our
solar system, Colossal cookbok, shareware overload, xxx extreme, and Deathstar
arcade battles  (all $19 each)  Seems pretty cheap. I'd also like to  know if
any other are good - such as Golden Immortal and Sophisticated Santa Fe.
Any info or reviews will be greatly appreciated.
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: mjohnsto@jenny.shearson.com (Mike Johnston)
Subject: MS Word/Bookshelf CD bundle??
Organization: Lehman Brothers
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:01:31 GMT


I can't remember where I saw this, but I'm CERTAIN I saw MS Word and Bookshelf now
bundled on ONE CD-ROM disc. Can anyone tell me what this gives me? Does it run
off the CD rather than snatching gobs of disk space off my machine? Does it have
integrated access to the bookshelf reference files? Any information on upgrading
to the merge product if you already own both separately?

The marriage of the two sounds like a fantastic idea, let's hope I wasn't just
dreaming.

MJ
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From: wct1+@pitt.edu (William C Tom)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: groliers' cdrom for sale
Date: 1 Sep 92 00:44:06 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


For sale:

Grolier's Encyclopedia (text + graphics + sound) for DOS - 1991 edition

$50 + shipping

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From: mlm@cs.brown.edu (Moises Lejter)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Mitsumi CD-ROM bundle?
Date: 25 Aug 92 15:25:43
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Brown University
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: mlm@cs.brown.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: miles.cs.brown.edu

I was walking around New York City this last weekend, and the window
display for "Software, Etc" (part of B.Dalton's Booksellers?) had a
bunch of Mitsumi CD-ROM drives, with controller and a few CD-ROM
disks, for $200.  This is about half the price I've seen for CD-ROM
bundles around, but I know nothing about this particular drive.
Anybody have any information on it?  Is the price really as good a
deal as it seems to be?

Moises Lejter
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From: tauren@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Tauren N Mills)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.multimedia,misc.jobs.misc,misc.jobs.offered
Subject: Entrepreneur seeks...
Keywords: cd-rom jobs
Date: 26 Aug 92 18:31:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: pdxgate.6025
Distribution: pnw

Entrepreneur seeks dependable person with knowledge of cd-rom and/or
interactive video design and production to work on project with large
profit potential.  Please send resume or list of qualifications and
how you can be reached to:

Tim Whitfield
1689 SW Montgomery Drive
Portland OR 97201

Thank you.
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Please do not send e-mail to this account.

Tauren Mills
tauren@rigel.cs.pdx.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom