Message-ID: <01FD6EC775C6D4119CDF0090273F74A4021F58@emwatent02.meters.com.au> From: "da Silva, Joe" To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" Subject: RE: prob audio CD on 2nd CD-ROM with NWCDEX Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:11:38 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com See below ... Joe. > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Moran [SMTP:pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com] > Sent: Thursday, 15 February 2001 2:41 > To: opendos AT delorie DOT com > Subject: Re: prob audio CD on 2nd CD-ROM with NWCDEX > ----- snip ----- > For audio CDs you only need a 1X or 2X drive (I don't recall which the > audio CD speed is.) You are not going to get any better fidelity on > audio CDs with a higher speed drive as they all play at that slow 1X or > 2X speed. > [da Silva, Joe] It's 1X speed (what else would the reference speed mean? ;-). Incidentally, you should be wary of 1X, 2X, 4X, (6X?) IDE CD-ROMs because these are older and less likely to conform to the ATAPI standard - hence more likely to have compatability issues ... OTOH, if you use the _correct_ driver, you will _often_ have no trouble from these older drives ... ----- snip ----- > > >It may be purely a hardware problem. > > > > Less likely. Despite of the IDE issue there is more evidence > > beeing a API or _protocoll_ problem. At which level remains open... > > It most likely is a combination of both. I just had a thought. What if > you were to disable one of the drives in the CMOS setup and enable the > one you want to use each time you want to change drives? I don't know if > this will work. I don't have a lot of experience playing with IDE stuff. > If the master and slave settings are purely a hardware thing, then maybe > you can do it that way. But if you had a slave without a master and it's > not just a hardware thing, then maybe you cannot do this in the CMOS > setup. > ----- snip ----- [da Silva, Joe] Uhhh - last time I checked, ATAPI drives are always *disabled* in the BIOS "CMOS settings" ... however, I have not played around much with ATAPI-aware BIOSes so, perhaps there are now some ATAPI-specific BIOS settings that I am not aware of. Nevertheless, a "disabled" setting for your ATAPI drives is *always* appropriate and your safest option ... Also, if you have a single drive on an IDE cable, you should always set this as master. Sure, sometimes a "slave" setting may work, but usually it doesn't work or causes trouble. Similarly, if there are two drives, one must be set as master, the other as slave. ----- snip -----