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to: GREGORY URBAN
from: CHRISTER JACOBSSON
date: 1998-05-12 01:13:00
subject: Nec cdr-463 & audio grabb

Wednesday April 29 1998, Gregory Urban writes to Christer Jacobsson:
 GU> Greetings Christer
As Salaam Aleikum Gregory!
 CJ>> I just popped an audioCD in my cdrom player and fired up the CD
 CJ>> player in the Multimedia folder, and guess what? When I clicked
 CJ>> Options, there were four selections: Auto play, Repeat, Shuffle
 CJ>> Tracks and Digital Transfer, BUT the option Digital Tranfer were
 CJ>> *greyed out*, meaning that DT isn't possible, at least not
 CJ>> under Warp3 with the AIC7870.add SCSI driver.
 GU>  ÿ
 GU> My system is somewhat different from yours however I did discover
 GU> something which may be of help.  I'm using Warp 3 (Fixpak 26), Promise
 GU> DC440 IDE/IO/SCSI-2 adaptor (uses Adaptec AHA-1540 driver for Warp) and
 GU> a Toshiba 12x SCSI-2 CD-ROM drive.
My is a NEC SCSI-2 16x CD-ROM.
 GU> The SCSI adaptor has it's own BIOS and in the BIOS one can set various
 GU> attributes.
As I can do in my Adaptec Aha-2940UW
 GU>   I found that if I have the "parity check" for the adaptor
 GU> enabled and "synchronous transfer" for the CD-ROM itself _disabled_ I
 GU> can make use of "Digital Transfer" of audio tracks from a music CD to
 GU> my AWE32 sound card.  If "synchronous transfer" for the CD-ROM is
 GU> enabled in the SCSI adaptor's BIOS then DT is greyed out in Warp's
 GU> CD-Player.
I went into the 2940UW Bios and checked, and yes, there was a 'parity check' 
and a 'synchronous negotiation' option (by default 'parity check' is enabled 
so I didn't have to touch it).
So I disabled 'sync negotiation' for SCSI ID#6 - where the NEC CDROM resides 
- saved the change and rebooted the system. Again popped an audioCD in the 
CDROM and tried digital transfer via the Warp3 audioCD player; also tried 
Leech/2 - a program for grabbing audio tracks digitally off an audioCD - but 
with NO luck. Digital transfer was *still* not possible.
 GU> Hope this helps.
Unfortunately, it didn't.
How does I go about reporting this error/bug to IBM's Warp people?
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