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- === CD2SB v1.0i Copyright (c) 1996 Slava Gostrenko. ===
-
-
- Introduction.
-
- CD2SB is a CD-DA (Digital Audio) player that plays CDs via your sound
- card's DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter) rather then CD-ROM drive's DAC. So
- you can compare the quality of the DACs.
-
-
- Usage.
-
- CD2SB [<Track number>] - plays from the given (or first) track till the
- end of disk.
-
- or
-
- CD2SB <Start track number>-<End track number> - plays the given range of
- tracks.
-
- or any combination, for example
-
- CD2SB 1-1 3-4 7 - plays 1st, 3rd, and 4th tracks, and starting from
- the 7th till the end of disk.
-
-
- Tech notes and troubleshooting.
-
- Your CD drive and driver(!) should support Read Long In Raw Data Mode
- command. As far as I know cr_atapi.sys and sbide.sys dos drivers for IDE
- cd-rom's do support this command. Win95 standart IDE drivers support Read Long
- too. Note that by default you may have non-standart IDE controller drivers
- installed (esp. if your CD-ROM is connected to IDE interface on a sound card).
-
- If you have a Sound Blaster with IDE interface and specific Sound Blaster
- IDE drivers for Win95 installed then replace them with standart Win95 IDE
- drivers. The Sound Blaster IDE drivers I've seen do not support Read Long.
-
- All Bus Master IDE Win95 drivers for Triton chipset I've seen do not
- support Read Long! Replace them with standart Win95 IDE drivers. Note that
- Intel (and may be some other) Bus Master IDE drivers can not be easily removed
- from your hardware configuration. Intel drivers literaly replace standart
- drivers and the original drivers can be restored only via reinstallation of
- Win95.
-
- I have failed to run the program with protected mode 32-bit drivers under
- Win95 OEM Service Release 2 (4.0.950B, aka Win96 build 1111). But DOS drivers
- work fine.
-
- If you failed to run CD2SB with Win95 drivers then you may try to switch
- to DOS drivers. Note that for DOS drivers to continue to work under Win95 GUI
- loaded there should be protected mode Win95 drivers disabled in the system
- configuration. Check the box at start -> settings -> control panel -> system
- -> performance -> file system -> troubleshooting -> disable all 32-bit
- protect-mode disk drivers. Remember to install DOS cd-rom drivers and
- MSCDEX.EXE in your config.sys or autoexec.bat and reboot your computer
- afterwards.
-
- I'm not sure that all DOS CD-ROM drivers support Read Long. Drivers that
- I've tested and that support Read Long are SBIDE.SYS and CR_ATAPI.SYS (aka
- lm581ide.sys).
-
- To get the driver that support Read Long for sure visit Creative's web
- site (http://www.creaf.com/) and open directory at
- ftp://ftp.creaf.com/pub/creative/drivers/cdrom. You need the file named
- SBIDED95.EXE. It is a collection of DOS/WIN3.1/WIN95 IDE ATAPI CD-ROM drivers
- and installation programs. You need only DOS part of this archive (run
- INSTALL.EXE, NOT SETUP.EXE). If you want to be sure that you make a clear
- experiment install and use this driver in a pure DOS (If it's ok in DOS you
- may use it in WIN/WIN95 as well, but don't forget to disable 32-bit drivers
- first). If this driver works as a normal CD-ROM driver (e.i. you can read
- normal data CD-ROMs), but fails to read audio disks then it is most likely
- that your CD drive cannot read audio CDs. To get the list of drives that
- support or do not support reading audio disks visit
- http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~psyche/cdda/
-
- If you have a slow (2x speed) CD drive then you may want to reduce
- PosErrorProtection value in CD2SB.Cfg. "PosErrorProtection = 2" and "CCM=0"
- seems to work well on 2x speed CD drives.
-
- Note that with CCM (Cache Counter Measures) disabled (e.i = 0) you may
- not run CD2SB with Win95 protected mode drivers. There is a bug in the drivers
- that leads to a poor sound quality if CCM are not enabled. DOS drivers do not
- have that bug.
-
- CD2SB requires Sound Blaster SB16 sound card. Sound Blaster compaitable
- cards are usually compaitable only with a Sound Blaster Pro (e.i. they are
- compaitable only in an 8 bit sound mode). 16 bit sound mode is usually not
- compaitable with SB16.
-
- CD2SB reads you sound card setup from the BLASTER environment variable.
- So make sure that BLASTER variable is correct.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- BLASTER=Aa Ii Dd Hh Pp Tt
- Aa - Base Address 0210h, 0220h, 0230h, 0240h,
- 0250h, 0260h, 0280h
- Ii - Interrupt Request 2, 3, 5, 7, 10
- Dd - DMA Channel, 8-bit 0, 1, 3
- Hh - DMA Channel, 16-bit 5, 6, 7
- Pp - Base MIDI Address 0300h, 0330h
- Tt - Model 1(1.x), 2(Pro), 3(2.0), 4(Pro2.0),
- 5(ProMCV), 6(16, AWE32)
-
- NOTE: 16-bit DMA definition may actually refer to an 8-bit DMA alias.
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- To get more info about reading audio CDs or to get other programs that
- read audio CDs visit http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~psyche/cdda/
-
-
- E-Mail me anytime you wish and don't forget to visit my homepage at
- http://sunny.aha.ru/~gw/ (read http.www file included in this package)! ;-)
-
-
- Author: Slava Gostrenko
- E-Mail: gw@aha.ru
- WWW: http://sunny.aha.ru/~gw/ <- Latest versions and info are here
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-
-
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- updated.
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