Jean-Michel Dossogne wrote to Will Honea on 10-21-1999

JD>  WH> I have one of those old dogs here.
JD> you do?! great! pliiizzzzzzzzzz! have you still the dip-
JD> switch settings? Got two such drives, left them on id0 cos' 
JD> I can't get the docs anywhere..
JD> For a bbs they're more than enough, as reader for pressed cd (no
JD> cd-r support) 

You really want me to pull that thing out so I can see the connectors?
;-{  OK, but it will take me a day or so to get to it.

JD> well, I installed warp4 with it on my ps/2 without a 
JD> problem; made some test with warp connect, same good result.
JD> but no way to get it reading cd-r's, and that's baaaaaad... 
JD> cos' all my fixpacks are now on cd-r

I can barely get this one to read commercial pressed CD's.  It won't
even recognize the presence of CD-R's, much less CD-RW's.  In fact, I
don't think it even supports some of the current formats!  As I said,
it's marginal at best.  I used it because it was in the junk box with
an old SCSI card when I needed a CDROM drive.  I was surprised when it
actually worked.

All in all, I'd suggest you watch the local swap meets and bulletin
boards.  Heck, some of the retailers around here are selling ATAPI 24x
drives for $29.95 (US) with a $30 rebate!  Old 4x drives show up for $5
or even free fairly often.

If you're a glutton for punishment, try sticking the controller into a
machine running Warp 4, boot with full hardware detect on then check
RMVIEW /DC to see what it found.  That, or run Selective Install and
see what SCSI options it gives you.  The IBM Device Driver site doesn't
list anything for Chinon SCSI adapters and a quick pass with FTPSearch
turned up nothing so I suspect you may be SOL.  There may be a Chinon
driver on the old Warp 3 CD's but I can't check that until tomorrow. 
I'll post any promising results but if you hear nothing it's because
that's what I found.  From what I can tell, the SCSI adapter is going
to kill you before you even get a chance to fight with the old drive,
especially if you need it to read CD-R's.

Will Honea 
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