Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-09 Thread Bret Johnson
Look at the following web site: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Standard.htm There are all kinds of standards there related to optical media (CD DVD) -- both physical/media standards and software/protocol standards.

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-09 Thread Dale E Sterner
thanks On Tue, 9 Jun 2015 14:46:56 GMT Bret Johnson bretj...@juno.com writes: Look at the following web site: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Standard.htm There are all kinds of standards there related to optical media (CD DVD) -- both physical/media standards

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-09 Thread Dale E Sterner
I looked for books never found any. Didn't know what to search for. There are large books filled with printer commands and how to use them. Nothing for cd commands. There use to be books for modem commands really scarce now. cheers DS On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 20:41:37 +0200 Tom Ehlert

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-08 Thread Tom Ehlert
On 6/8/2015 7:27 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: For printers its usually easy to find the control commands but for cd units I've never seen them made available to the public. Is there a command list published anywhere for cds. Yes, it's called ATAPI and there exist a lot of different documents

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-08 Thread Ralf Quint
On 6/8/2015 7:27 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: For printers its usually easy to find the control commands but for cd units I've never seen them made available to the public. Is there a command list published anywhere for cds. Yes, it's called ATAPI and there exist a lot of different documents for

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi John, http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14268 mentions a new version of the closed source variant of Jack's drivers, but it sounds as if that mainly has been tested with modern drives, suspecting that your drive uses outdated audio command dialects. In any case, maybe the

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-08 Thread Dale E Sterner
For printers its usually easy to find the control commands but for cd units I've never seen them made available to the public. Is there a command list published anywhere for cds. cheers DS On Mon, 08 Jun 2015 13:22:43 +0200 Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de writes: Hi John,

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-08 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14268 mentions a new version of the closed source variant of Jack's drivers, but it sounds as if that mainly has been tested with modern drives, suspecting that your

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-05 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 04/06/2015 22:16, John Hupp wrote: But pursuing the driver-as-a-suspect angle anyway, I found a Lite-on DOS driver and installed that. CD playing now works. That's nice to now - would you mind to specify please what mode of CD-Audio is working for you exactly when using Lite-on, but not

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-04 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, I hate to dredge all of this up, but On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 3:16 PM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com wrote: I correct myself. I was using ide-cd.sys on another machine I was working with a couple weeks ago. On this machine I have been using the default uide.sys. But pursuing

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-04 Thread John Hupp
On 6/4/2015 4:29 PM, Rugxulo wrote: It could be an incorrect or buggy driver, dunno. The only way to know would be to try something else. But I'm not sure of a good alternative. I don't even know where to (reliably) find such old DOS drivers. That seems to have been the case. In my post that

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-04 Thread John Hupp
Thanks for the clarifications. I could add though, that I tried CDROM2 PLAY01 F: and it responded with something like F: is not an audio drive, but F: is. The CD-ROM cable is known working (confirmed via Win 98), and I turned up the CD volume in the sound card mixer. But it may be that the

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! With cdrom2ui, I ran these two commands: CDROM2 PLAY01 F: CDROM PLAY01 F: In both cases it responded Error reading from drive F: data area: drive not ready. Only the larger CDROM2 tool supports audio commands and you have to omit the , so the proper command would be: CDROM2

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-04 Thread John Hupp
On 6/4/2015 7:43 AM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 8:16 PM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com wrote: With mpxplay now working, I am continuing with the quest to get a CD player working. I temporarily installed a Win 98 hard drive on this machine and got the sound card working in

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-04 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 8:16 PM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com wrote: With mpxplay now working, I am continuing with the quest to get a CD player working. I temporarily installed a Win 98 hard drive on this machine and got the sound card working in Windows. I also established how to

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-04 Thread John Hupp
I correct myself. I was using ide-cd.sys on another machine I was working with a couple weeks ago. On this machine I have been using the default uide.sys. But pursuing the driver-as-a-suspect angle anyway, I found a Lite-on DOS driver and installed that. CD playing now works. Thank you for

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-04 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 1:06 PM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com wrote: Thanks for the clarifications. I could add though, that I tried CDROM2 PLAY01 F: and it responded with something like F: is not an audio drive, but F: is. The CD-ROM cable is known working (confirmed via Win 98),

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-03 Thread John Hupp
With mpxplay now working, I am continuing with the quest to get a CD player working. I temporarily installed a Win 98 hard drive on this machine and got the sound card working in Windows. I also established how to connect the standard 4-pin audio CD connector on the CD-ROM drive with the

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-03 Thread John Hupp
It occurs to me that at least some of the CD players have D: hard-coded as the drive location. If you had a suggestion for which that was configurable, that might help. On 6/3/2015 9:16 PM, John Hupp wrote: With mpxplay now working, I am continuing with the quest to get a CD player working.