Friday April 10 1998, Lynn Nash writes to Christer Jacobsson:
 CJ>> Hi!
As Salaam Aleikum!
 LN> This is a guess on my part because it goes back to the first audioCD
 LN> functions in OS/2 2.x and discussion on Talklink by one of the
 LN> developers of CD player, OS/2 does analog transfer of audio tracks by
 LN> default (the little cable that goes from the CD to your sound card).
 LN> That function is just like your walkman and you are just using the sound
 LN> card to get to the speakers.  You have to turn on digital transfer so
 LN> that data actually flows across the SCSI bus to do a grab.  The Warp CD
 LN> player has this as an option (compac disk in the multimedia folder).
I just popped an audioCD in my cdrom player and fired up the CD player in the 
Multimedia folder, and guess what? When I clicked Options, there were four 
selections: Auto play, Repeat, Shuffle Tracks and Digital Transfer, BUT the 
option Digital Tranfer were *greyed out*, meaning that DT isn't possible, at 
least not under Warp3 with the AIC7870.add SCSI driver.
So I can only draw one conclusion in light of the fact that digital transfer 
IS POSSIBLE from straight DOS using Adaptec's ASPI8DOS.SYS and ASPICD.SYS 
drivers; that the AIC7870.ADD, OS2SCSI.DMD or OS2ASPI.DMD are shitty, buggy 
or incomplete.
I think I shall go out on the Net, grab a NT grabbing program and test if my 
NT4 Server installation allows me to do an digital grab from my NEC CDROM, 
just for the hell of it. If NT4 allow me to do a digital grab but not Warp3, 
well, then I think the writers of the three basedevs mentioned above should 
get five lashes with the cat o'nine tails ... :-) I'm *no* friend of NT, but 
if dire necessity forces me to use it, then let it be written and let it be 
done - I'm creeping death.... :-)
/GAIA (Insulin User - 2nd Anniversary & 17th Wedding Anniversary :-) )
       Team OS/2      E-mail: cribo.jacobsson@gaea.se
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