Re: Sony CD Rom drive on a GS

[lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (John Lesher)]

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.

: (Apple's CD Remote NDA is also limited to the three models listed above.)

The CD-Remote NDA will not work with the third-party drivers either.  Use
the Media Control NDA.

: >         Does anyone have any suggestions as to the problem. Is it possible
: > the  APLcd driver is not compatible with the sony drive? 
: > The manual says it needs a MSCDEX and a device driver for the CD-ROM.

: MSCDEX is the "Microsoft CD Extensions" which allow a CD-ROM drive to
: be accessed as a disk drive under MS-DOS or Windows (provided a device
: driver has been installed).

: It is only relevant for a PC.
: -- 
: David Empson
: dempson@actrix.gen.nz
: Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand

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