norman@a.cs.okstate.edu (Norman Graham) (03/11/88)
Has anyone tried to use Apple's CD SC driver with other CD-ROM players?
If it will work, how should the CD-ROM player be set up?
Bus Arbitration [on/off]
SCSI id (does this matter as long as it's not 0 or 7?)
anything else?
In particular, I'm trying to use it with a Toshiba drive. The mac seems
to talk to the drive long enough to tell it to lock the CD-ROM drawer,
but an icon for the drive never appears on the desktop. Any ideas?
(by the way, I'm using a HFS formatted CD-ROM).
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Stillwater, OK 74078-0599alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg) (03/14/88)
It sounds like you have a copy of the technical documentation that Apple gave out at the CD-ROM conference. If you do, then you already know more than most. From what I could determine, about half tof the CD-ROM driver calls work on the Toshiba drive without rewriting. THe calls that work on non-Apple dirves are for the most part noted as such in the technical documentation. What I think is the best route in this event is to write your own CD-ROM driver for the Toshiba, although I suspect many are already doing drivers for that drive. My 2 cents are: make sure that Apple's neato Audio CD player desk accessory works with whatever you may do. It is just too cool to believe. Side Note: Have you tried the Apple Drive? What I wanna know is, can one play an Audio CD without using MultiFinder (the DA closes. Does the music end, or is the APlay command synchronous?) Also, Does anybody have any idea how a small SCSI adaptor could be built to just play audio with the Apple drive? Some Radio SHack parts and the technical doumentation are all that seems needed Just simulate the Audio commands that the driver sends with buttons! You could sell millions when the Apple drive goes obsolete! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Alexander M. Rosenberg ~ INTERNET: alibaba@ucscb.ucsc.edu ~ Yoyodyne ~ ~ Crown College, UCSC ~ UUCP:...!ucbvax!ucscc!ucscb!alibaba~ Propulsion ~ ~ Santa Cruz, CA 95064 ~ BITNET:alibaba%ucscb@ucscc.BITNET ~ Systems ~ ~ (408) 426-8869 ~ Disclaimer: Nobody is my employer ~ :-) ~ ~ ~ so nobody cares what I say. ~ ~
blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel) (03/15/88)
In article <2375@saturn.ucsc.edu> alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg) writes: >What I wanna know is, can one play an Audio CD without using >MultiFinder (the DA closes. Does the music end, or is the APlay >command synchronous?) You start up an audio CD using the CD Remote desk accessory. Once you start playing a CD, it plays without further intervention from the Mac. You can close the desk accessory. When you get to the end of the CD, the default behavior is to loop back to the beginning. You can change that behavior using the CD Remote desk accessory. Think of the CD Remote desk accessory as everything that comes with a high-end audio CD remote control. Multifinder is not relevant to playing an audio CD. The desk accessory is what controls audio CD play. (Or program control...) --Brian Bechtel blob@apple.com