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- From: gs@spckll.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Gerd Schniggenberg)
- Subject: Re: CDrom on a4000, idefix
- Message-ID: <1996Mar6.092500.15437@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
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- Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
- References: <Dnqy2r.CJx.0.-s@cs.vu.nl> <4hfi4n$cni$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 09:25:00 GMT
-
- In <4hfi4n$cni$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> Oliver Kastl <100447.3361@CompuServe.COM> writes:
-
- >>> What exactly does Idefix fix about the scsi.device in my A4000?
- ><<
-
- >The IDE-fix "package" can be divided in 4 parts:
-
- >ATAPI - allows use of ATAPI CD-ROMS (up to 4 units with adapter)
- >CacheCDFS - FileSystem
- >Utilities - CD32-Emulator, Audio Player, etc.
- >IDE-fix - C= "scsi.device" replacement. Adds Autopark, SyQuest
- >support, slightly faster, LBA addressing if possible, less
- >MaxTransfer trouble, much faster with odd word aligned data
- >(ShapeSifter does this sometimes!), allows 4 harddisks to be used
- >(with adapter)
-
- >These parts work quite independant, e.g. you can use CacheCDFS
- >with ANY controller (yes, SCSI too!), ATAPI without IDE-fix,
- >IDE-fix alone. If for some reason IDE-fix fails with a particular
- >harddisk, you can use ATAPI for your CD-Rom and keep the old C=
- >driver.
- >However, the use of ATAPI together with IDE-fix is recommended, as
- >a "complete" replacement of the C= device is more system friendly
- >than "hacking" into the existing device (the C= device and ATAPI
- >must share hardware resources). I've splitted the functionality in
- >two parts as a backward compatibility insurance.
-
- >--
- >Oliver Kastl, Elaborate Bytes
- >Home is where the heart is
-
- Is there any CDDA program, that supports reading digital audio tracks
- from the atapi.device? I think it should be possible with my Toshiba
- 5302B CD-ROM. I read that it should be possible with the AsimCDFS, but
- I don't want to buy a new FileSystem, because I have the nice CacheCDFS.
-
- Gerd
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