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I have a SoundBlaster 16asp (and have had the Pro) with their CD-ROM. I have not had any problems with it using Multimedia. All references to capacity are basically bogus — all CD-ROMs (drives and discs) have the same capacity! The advantage of using the one from CL is that…
I nominate Sound Sensations from Chestnut. ALL the files are in zipped and in their own directories! Really dumb.
IBM PS2 55SX CD Upgrade?
Message #41621
I work for a company that was unfortunate enough to have bought many 55sx CPUs. The 55sx is a 386sx/16 computer with fairly lack-luster video performance, minimal memory upgrade potential, and frankly, NO FUTURE. For the same $1k you would sink into CD-ROM on that unit, you could almost buy…
Eric: There are only 2 kinds of caddies… Ones for Phillips CD-ROM, and ones for everything else (Sony type). I would really doubt you need the Phillips kind, and the Sony variety can be obtained for about $6 mail order — take a chance.
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#CDROM Disk Cacheing
Message #28106
I have used CD Speedway from Bloc Plublishing. It does a good job of caching repeated reads of data. It will cache to any DOS drive device, eg. C: D: or a ramdisk (preferable). I don't think it really does much in the way of read-ahead though, and that is…