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The HP SCSI controller should have come with its own driver. If it didn't, you can't use it for the CD ROM. I know of no general HP SCSI cards with ASPI managers; all of them are designed to drive specific HP devices.
The Phillips driver only lets the Phillips software talk to the drive and vice-versa. It's Phillips' own software that does the recording, formatting, etc. The 604X, while networkable, isn't one I'd like on a big network since it can only load and play one of the six disks at a…
He offered you the upgrade for fifty bucks? Hmmm…. Maybe I should call them tomorrow. Lazlo said it was $79….
The PS2 is a fine computer. If you have an Adaptec, BusLogic, Future Domain, etc. MCA SCSI card it'll work fine with an ASPI manager. It's IBM's own SCSI card that's the problem, not the computer itself.
Hopefully you've also terminated the first device in the chain and insured that there are no terminators in between (remember, if running external devices, the card, too, is a SCSI device and has terminators). The other thing to insure is that no device on the chain has the same ID…
I haven't any idea what sort of optimizing software there would be for CorelSCSI. CorelSCSI IS updated regularly to reflect support for more devices, and those updates are provided free from Corel for the asking to registered users. The latest version is CorelSCSI 1.2b, which can be gotten free from…
If you are ever dealing with a service bureau you're almost required to use EPS; all bureaus support it and it's device independent, so even Mac-based SBs can take your EPS files. When dealing with Bureaus, Postscript is a necessity. Photopaint will only embed a file (say, TIFF) into an…
It definitely sounds like a termination problem. The usual applies–only the first and last device in a SCSI chain should be terminated (and, remember, the card is a device so it, too, has terminators) and all the ID numbers should be unique. Bootable hard disks are always ID0; a second…
You can get 1.2b for free by requesting it from Customer Service, Section 4, here. Or you can upgrade to CorelSCSI 2.0, which is due for release next week.
Somebody else here was having the same trouble and say that Always has a brand new ASPI driver that solves a lot of problems that can be downloaded from Always.
The key fact is "five years old." The fact is, most SCSI devices until the advent of the ASPI standard were not really designed to be SCSI in the chainable sense we think of now. They were designed to be run from a card specifically designed to run the device…
IBM SCSI cards are the only major cards that do not support the ASPI standard but a proprietary IBM CAM driver. I believe the IBM will support the CD ROM if you check, but you can't run ASPI driver packs or ASPI devices on that card. Sorry. Everybody would like…
Trantor has a very proprietary card language and you must buy from them, at substantial additional cost, their own specific ASPI manager to use anything ASPI with their boards/devices. Supported hardware is listed in MASTER.TXT in LIB3 here.
I doubt if it's violating any laws to send the product of one Commonwealth nation (Canada) to another (Zimbabwe), but CorelSCSI is a commercial product and it's for sale, not something given away. Where one would buy it in Zimbabwe is beyond me (but somebody from Corel should be on…
Sorry, the MAC and PC use entirely different and incompatible CD ROM formats just as they use different disk formats. You can not read CDs formatted for a Mac on a PC, or vice-versa.
Probably got my messages crossed and somebody else got the Toshiba message. So it goes. The CorelSCSI universal CD ROM driver runs MY 3401 just fine. You can't use proprietary drivers and mix them with CorelSCSI's since proprietary ones tend to write directly to the cards.
Ah, but CorelSCSI 2.0 isn't $99 retail, it's $129 retail, so expect the street and mail order price on it to be $95. CorelSCSI 1.2 is $75 street. Not much of an upgrade savings, but $16 can buy a couple of very good pizzas with beer.
You have to take that one up with Gateway, I suspect. CorelSCSI doesn't support NT, although who knows about 2.0 due out next week?
Matsushita, the largest electronics giant in Japan and second largest (after Phillips NV of Holland) in the world. Matsushita OEMs to tons of folks under different brand names, as well as selling things themselves under the Panasonic, Technics, and, outside North America, the National brand names. To my knowledge, Corel…
Bill, I have no idea what's happening, but after reading the first account of this I tried it with Map Expert 2.0 and, sure enough, it happens every time.
Nobody from Corel will be around here until Monday and all next week will probably be a zoo for them anyway as Comdex rages and they introduce a bunch of new products including CorelSCSI 2.0. I've had conflicts with PCKwick in a number of areas and finally dropped it, but…
The 5X will work. There didn't seem to be any need to rewrite the thing to include the choice, and with 2.0 coming out next week it was what the heck. DOS 5.X and 6.X have the same file format.
Pretty high upgrade price, Lazlo, considering what street price usually is. CD Power PAK?
Good luck if the Toshiba drivers can handle a 7010. Matsushita designed the 7010 around CorelSCSI.
Yeah, the ad says that version 2 will support scanners (good for them! Guess my bugging and arguments helped!) and writable CD ROMs. It also has a much jazzier interface, at least the Windows version. It also has a higher price ($129 vs. $99) but no info on $ to…
Go to Customer Service, Section 4 here, and request it. Include your serial number with the request and whether you want CDs or floppies.
This may be too basic and, if so, apologies, but check that the ID number does not conflict with any others on the chain and also check terminations. I have a 7010 rather than a 5010 but I know that either by jumpers or switches they all have a termination…
Then it's likely that something else in your chain wants asynch. I've had this problem before. The Panasonic 7010, for example, won't work in synch mode.
If it's proprietary, you'll have to find an adapter for it or it won't work. On the other hand, if you can find an adapter (I've heard that this exists but know nothing else about it) the Sony should still work.
At the moment I know of nobody successfully reporting that they can access the 7010 via NT. This will take an NT driver, and I haven't heard of one yet, although since Corel did the original 7010 driver for Matsushita, I wouldn't be surprised. On the other hand, I've just…
#CorelSCSI 2.0
Message #85614
Hmmm…. INFOWORD has a large full page ad for CorelSCSI 2.0 which includes support for scanners and such heretofore only in Pro at a price of $129. Seems that even if the ad has jumped the Comdex announcement gun we ought to get some information on this and upgrade pricing,…
Basically, Rich, I'll probably stop stopping by unless I have some business here under the new system, since with all the monitoring of forums and support stuff I do elsewhere here, plus the fact that I have to make a living, I just can't add a half-dozen topics that might…
#604X nogo Groliers audio
Message #52026
You might also try turning Stealth off in QEMM. It often causes serious problems with the video.
#New User with ?
Message #52025
The faster the processor, both in speed and capabilities, and the more memory you have, the better your CD ROM will work. It should work fine with your 386, but you might have some jerkiness on full motion video due to speed and throughput. The Pro Audio cards are fully…
#Where?
Message #52024
Okay, oh great fount of knowledge, after they redo all the forums here on the 4th, where would those of us who monitored the no longer existant "Multimedia" here go?
Soundblaster & CD-ROM
Message #52023
Unlike the PAS16 card's port, which is a fully compliant SCSI port, the SoundBlaster port is proprietary and designed to make you buy your CD ROM from Creative Labs.
#Soundblaster & CD-ROM
Message #52022
That's pretty weird. Internal devices should be mounted internally for stability and safety alone. To run the CD ROM you would need a port manager for the port you connected it to and MicroSoft's MSCDEX 2.2, and a CD ROM driver. If they aren't bundled with your unit, you'll have…
The SoundBlaster Pro also has problems if the three magic Windows drivers are not loaded in a specific order (it's in a README file). You should also hunt up and download the latest SB Pro drivers.
The latest, and only the latest, revision of the PAS16 allows the use of INT10. The SoundBlasters can be configured for 5, 7, and 10, so if you have 10 free any of them should be okay. However, the PAS16 is noted to be more inflexible on the DMA addresses…
Well, if he'll sell quantity ones Adaptec owners (and probably Adaptec itself) will kiss his feet!
There is no Newark Electronics in MY local book, or even for nearby cities. I am not sure they are as ubiquitous as you say they are. Do they have a national sales number?
The SB 16 uses the same proprietary port as the SB Pro.
Other than it was in some June issue, no, I can't recall where I saw the first looks review of the Pinnacle (too many magazines come in, too little time). However, the company has an excellent long-term reputation for doing good quality products and I certainly wouldn't hesitate to buy…
The older 84 is SCSI-2, but does not support Kodak multisession and NEC has indicated no plans to provide a firmware upgrade for it. As far as I know, that's the one that's in the bundle, and will be until they run out of them and package more (alas, probably…
Sorry, I've never even seen a Mitsumi, and I wouldn't connect diddly to that bastardized SCSI port on the SB Pro (although somebody makes an adapter for it–maybe someone here can say who). I run everything off a BusLogic 742A dedicated SCSI card and just connect the audio out to…
The 16 uses the same proprietary port and system as the SB Pro, alas.
I had this problem with my Pro for quite some time and could never nail it down, but it appears to be a driver problem. When I installed the latest SB Pro drivers, the problem disappeared and hasn't reappeared on my system. The drivers I'm using are dated in late…
You might get lucky and discover that it's some simple problem (check your interface cables, reseat the SCSI board, etc.) but from what you say I fear you may have mechanical problems.
Angelo, games are the most resource-hungry programs of all categories or types. If you want to use a CD ROM for the latest state of the art games, which include sound, motion video and animation, etc., you will simply have to buy the best.
Good news and bad. I know the difference between the two (that's the good news) but I don't know which one's which (that's the bad). One is XA Kodak multisession compatible (the current standard), the other one is only single session capable and can't (or won't by NEC) be upgradeable…
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