Re: Sony CD Rom drive on a GS

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <4pg5g8$dcb@news.vanderbilt.edu>,
John Lesher <lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> David Empson (dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
> : In article <4palok$em4@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>,
> : Paul H Bauer <pbauer@athena.mit.edu> wrote:
> : >         I bought one of the Sony CDU76S-81 CD Rom drives and hooked it up to
> : > my GS through an Apple HS SCSI card. After realizing I needed to install the
> : > CD media drivers from the 6.01 disks I did this and tried to get the drive to
> : > play audio disks but alas the drive is not responding to commands from the
> : > media control panel.
> 
> : Apple's Media Control Panel drivers for the CD-ROM drive only work
> : with an original Apple CDSC, CDSC+ or CD-150, which use Apple's
> : proprietary audio command set.  Later drives from Apple (CD-300,
> : CD-600) use the SCSI-2 standard audio command set, as do all current
> : third-party SCSI CD-ROM drives.  You need a different Media Control
> : Toolset driver for them.
> 
> Get the archive RFMEDIA1.2.SHK from one of the ftp sites (ground is down,
> try somewhere else, maybe ftp.ms.uky.edu).  Use the SCSI-2 driver.

Isn't that the Media Toolset drivers for use with the RamFast?  I
was talking about the Apple SCSI cards.  I believe Sequential did
release a product which supports audio with an Apple SCSI card and
SCSI-2 CD-ROMs, but I think it was a commercial product, not a free one.
-- 
David Empson
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