RS> The Soundblaster CDROM drivers are pretty relaxed about what they will
RS> run on CDROM wise, mainly coz Creative uses a variety of OEM drives.

BG> The one I now use (which works) is for a Mitsumi, I believe,

RS> Yeah, its one of the better ones.

BG> And not only does it appear to function perfectly, it's a tiny little
BG> driver which weighs in around half the size if the Panasonic one.

True, its a pretty spunky little driver in a variety of ways.

BG> the name sounds like something you'd use on a Creative drive (SBIDE.SYS).

RS> Thats because some of the Creative CDROM drives are Mitsumi OEMs.

BG> The earlier ones were single-speed Matsushitas, but I'll
BG> take your word for it that they used Mitsumis as well.

The most obvious example was the 4X, most of those
were Mitsumis. The 2X were also mostly Matsushitas.

BG> BTW, you might be interested to learn that I sold the
BG> SIS VLB m/board, the AMD 5x86/160 CPU, the 2Mb CL5428
BG> VLB video, and its 32-bit EIDE VLB controller, to none
BG> other than your extremely good friend, Dave Hatch.

RS> Yeah, noticed you shafted Dave for $300 for your VLB stuff,
RS> what he could have bought brand new in PCI format |-)

BG> Caveat emptor, Rod.

Caveat shaftor, Bill |-)

BG> Mind you, all that stuff was near new, and good quality name-brand gear,
BG> which he bought for well under dealer cost (2Mb DRAM video as well).

Pity that VLB has gone down the tubes very comprehensively indeed now.

BG> Let's just say that neither of us was unhappy about the transaction.

I find it a tad hard to believe that he did choose to pay as much for
second hand VLB as he could have got brand new with warrantee PCI tho |-)

But then, he clearly has got a severe problem between the ears if
he thinks that it makes the slightest sense to grovel to some damned
god who clearly doesnt give a stuff about 6M jews being pumped up
the crematoria chimneys, all those coons chopping each other to
bits in Rwanda, etc etc etc, so may he really is silly enough |-)
@EOT:

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