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- From: alexanderw@cber.cber.fda.gov (Bill Alexander)
- Subject: Re: Reno CD-ROM drives at Halted Electronics
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- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 17:33:52 GMT
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- In Article <4gfosr$1h5u@saba.info.ucla.edu>, KurtY@urfim.ucla.edu (Kurt
- Yamamoto) wrote:
- >According to a guy who works at the company which makes ASIMCDFS
- >the Reno DOES support digital auido data over SCSI. I can send you
- >a copy of his e-mail to you if you want. BTW I think you can still find
- >a little bit of info (mostly marketing type stuff) at www.mediavis.com.
- >
- > Kurt
- > KurtY@urfim.ucla.edu
-
-
- Here is my interaction with Mediavision + Frank Wurkner author of YACDP
- about this problem. I would love to see anything about getting this to
- work. Please send me the e-mail from ASIMWARE. Thanks.
- >
- >Frank, Here's the answer from Media Vision, I found their web pages through a
- quick search on Yahoo!. I guess I will have to add another cable if I want
- to do any sound samplesfrom a CD. Their manual really suggests that I
- should be able to do this via SCSI. Now I'll have to ask for a small set of
- amplified speakers for Christmas. Thanks again for your help and suggestions.
- >
- >C'ya, Bill
- >
- >----- Forwarded message follows -----
- >
- >From: MediaVis Internet Tech Supp <TechMain@MediaVis.com>
- >To: Bill Alexander <alexanderw@cber.cber.fda.gov>
- >Subject: RE: ReNO (MV-400SE)
- >Date: Wed, 13 Dec 95 16:18:00 PST
- >Message-Id: <30CF6EE6@MVIMAIL.MEDIAVIS.COM>
- >Encoding: 91 TEXT
- >X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0
- >
- >
- >Redbook audio is not passed through the bus. PC sound cards have
- >a connector for redbook audio. It requires a separate cable for that
- >audio. To hear redbook audio, you could plug a set of speakers into
- >the earphone jack or run a cable from the earphone jack to sound in
- >on your computer.
- >Bill H
- > ----------
- >From: Bill Alexander
- >To: techsupp
- >Subject: ReNO (MV-400SE)
- >Date: Wednesday, December 13, 1995 3:07PM
- >
- >Hello Techsupport,
- > I'm trying to get my ReNO CD-ROM to play audio over the SCSI bus on my
- >Amiga 2000 (previously made by Commodore). I can read data disks without a
- >problem. Below is my interaction with the author of the program YACDP (Yet
- >Another CD Player). He concludes that I should ask which command transfers
- >the audio data over the SCSI bus and what parameter it takes. Can you give
- >me any help?
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
- >Bill Alexander
- >alexanderw@cber.cber.fda.gov
- >
- >
- >"So none of the "standard" methods work. So if you really want to get it
- >working you must contact the manifacturer and ask him which command
- >transfers the audio data over the SCSI bus and what parameter it takes."
- >
- > Frank Wuerkner
-
-
- >>: The RENO does not do certain things (like digital audio data over SCSI)
- >>: like the Apple 300 I borrowed a while back (at least not with the
- >>: software I am using).
- >>
- >>I found that it will only start to send data out of the line out, near the
- >>power connector.
-
- This is what I found too.
- >>
- >>: I would be interested in manuals for the RENO. Anyone aware of any ?
-
- I have the manuals but it is geared to Mac and PC users. It suggests that
- sampling via SCSI is possible.
-
- Regards,
-
- Bill Alexander
- alexanderw@cber.cber.fda.gov
-
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