CJ>Hi!
CJ>In my system I have a internal NEC 16x SCSI-2 CDROM which the Warp3
CJ>application reports the following facts about:
CJ>=== Cut ===
CJ>This CDROM is attached to a Adaptec 2940UW adapter and I'm booting my
CJ>warp server v4 Advanced SMP with the aic7870.add basedev which
CJ>identifies itsefl as
CJ>=== Cut ===
CJ>Adaptec 7800 Family Driver for OS/2 v2.1x, Warp v3.x/d1.22
CJ>=== Cut ===
CJ>Now I have tried various OS/2 audio grab programs against this CDROM but
CJ>none of these was able to grab an audio track off an ordinary
CJ>audioCD. BUT! If I boot straight DOS (Caldera OpenDOS v7.01)
CJ>using Adaptec's ASPI8DOS.SYS, ASPICD.SYS and Caldera's
CJ>nwcdex.exe (Caldera's counterpart to the m$ mscdex), I am quite
CJ>able to grab audio tracks off an audioCD using a DOS program
CJ>(can't remember which now). More curious is that the same
CJ>program won't grab if I runs it in the Warp3 DOS box which
CJ>supposedly should have the mscdex support in it.
CJ>So, what's wrong here? Is something wrong with the CD or is it
CJ>misbehaving SCSI basedev drivers in Warp3 that prevents me from
CJ>grabbing audio tracks under Warp3?
This is a guess on my part because it goes back to the first audioCD
functions in OS/2 2.x and discussion on Talklink by one of the
developers of CD player, OS/2 does analog transfer of audio tracks by
default (the little cable that goes from the CD to your sound card).
That function is just like your walkman and you are just using the sound
card to get to the speakers.  You have to turn on digital transfer so
that data actually flows across the SCSI bus to do a grab.  The Warp CD
player has this as an option (compac disk in the multimedia folder).
I don't know what you are using for the grab but I believe it has to be
able to enable digital transfer or have a mixer that works with your
sound card and capture it that way just like you would from an external
source like a microphone.  I would imagine that your DOS program is more
of a brute force thing and under OS/2 it is virtualized like all the
rest of the hardware.  Sorry that I could not be of more help,
multimedia has not been a particularly interesting thing for me to do.
The only way that I could carry a tune if via boom box.
--Lynn
 * SLMR 2.1a * What's Up? - I don't know, I've never been there...
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