hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Hudgens) (07/06/90)
Can anyone give me any information on the SunCD player. In particular, what comes with it in terms of cables, and what type of connectors does it have. Does it have two connectors? Also, anyone know of any "highly recommended" 3rd party CD's for sale? I've heard of a company called "Young Minds" or something like that, which sells a CD containing all the X11 and GNU stuff. Any others? Jim Hudgens Supercomputer Computations Research Institute hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu
watson@spot.eng.sun.com (Robert Watson) (07/07/90)
In article <9681@brazos.Rice.edu> hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Hudgens) writes: >Can anyone give me any information on the SunCD player. In particular, >what comes with it in terms of cables, and what type of connectors does it >have. Does it have two connectors? The SunCD player comes in a standard SPARCstation "lunchbox" package, just like the 150Mb tape unit. There are two SCSI connectors on the rear plus a SCSI address selector. There is a SCSI cable and terminator included. On the front of the unit is a headphone jack plus volume control. Robert Watson watson@Eng.Sun.COM Sun Microsystems Inc. +1 415-336-2972 Mountain View, CA.
wytten@uunet.uu.net (Dale Wyttenbach) (07/10/90)
hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Hudgens) writes: >Can anyone give me any information on the SunCD player. In particular, >what comes with it in terms of cables, and what type of connectors does it >have. Does it have two connectors? It has two miniature SCSI connectors on the back. It has a headphone jack on the front, with an output level adjustment. It has an eject button on the front, and a green LED. That's about it. No line level output, no buttons suitable for playing audio CD's. It comes with SunOS 4.1 and a Demo CD that contains three audio tracks and 1 track of software. Included software is a program that provides a handy way to play audio CD's, but it's a Sunview application. (Anyone have an X11 version yet?) Don't get the idea that I don't think it's a neat box, because it is. I installed SunOS 4.1 from it with one minor glitch, which is probably just another bug in the suninstall program: when you select /dev/sr0 as the installation media, it always complains the first time that it can't mount the device. When you try it a second time, it works. I'd like it better with output suitable for amplification and an X11 CD player interface. (Yah, yah, write it yourself you say...) Is it possible to pull the audio out of the audio jack on the SPARC? Dale Wyttenbach | ...rutgers!umn-cs!wytten wytten@cs.umn.edu | wytten@umnacvx.bitnet
n313ap@tamuts.tamu.edu (Mark Saum) (07/16/90)
> I'd like it better with output suitable for amplification and an X11 CD > player interface. (Yah, yah, write it yourself you say...) Is it possible > to pull the audio out of the audio jack on the SPARC? No, you can't pull the CD out of the audio jack. The problem (other than the lack of direct software support) is that the Sun CD generates a stereo signal, and the audio output on the Sparcstation is mono 'telephone quality' output. There's a second problem as well. You could pull the data off the CD, then buffer it to the sound device. The problem you run into is that the sound tools encode the incoming data off of the chip, and so when you send the data back, it requires it in the same encoded form. If you want to send the cd data to the input, then buffer it back out the headphone that would be fine... but why? You'd loose stereo & CD quality. I imagine with a Next (doesn't it have stereo sound??) with a CD-Rom it would be possible to copy CD's onto a MO, compress them and put a couple CD's per MO. You could then call them back and copy them onto tape, or have it drive your stereo with a program to recall them. Right now storage is a bit too steep to handle, but it's an interesting concept. Very similar in implications to the DAT squabble. Not to mention that said CD's could be sent over the net. Mark Saum msaum@rsgis3.tamu.edu