Re: Sony CD Rom drive on a GS

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

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.

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

>         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
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