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rrd40 cdrom Message #52426

From: Sean Nelson CDROM Forum · DOS, Windows, OS/2 July 10, 1993 1:11 AM

Paul: I haven't tried using an RRD40 on a PC, but I have used an RRD42 quite successfully (I understand that the RRD42 is a Sony OEM drive). CDROMs are pretty generic if all you want to do is read data from them, so I'd hazard a guess that it…

#42127– CD-ROM under OS/2 Message #42247

From: Sean Nelson CDROM Forum · DOS, Windows, OS/2 March 7, 1993 9:22 PM

Howard: You might want to repost this question in the OS2USER forum… but in general OS/2 is very friendly to any CDROM drive that attaches via a SCSI host adapter. There is a set of drivers for a variety of different CDROM drives in one of the OS/2 forums (sorry,…

#41424– SCSI controllers Message #41946

From: Sean Nelson CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware March 4, 1993 9:21 PM

Susan: I'm not familiar with the Adaptec 1510, but I can tell you that the 1542 is a Bus Mastering controller which can perform the data transfer between a SCSI device and memory without involving the CPU. I assume that the 1510 is NOT a bus mastering controller (I know…