Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!pacbell.com!amdahl!juts.ccc.amdahl.com!p3tse02!scw30 From: scw30@mfg.amdahl.com (Scott Wade) Subject: Re: Mitsumi drive FX series Message-ID: <1994May27.024416.25245@ccc.amdahl.com> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com (UTS Tech Support) Reply-To: scw30@mfg.amdahl.com Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA References: <2rvh93$151@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 02:44:16 GMT Lines: 79 I'm still wondering if I can hook up the sound card to the CD-ROM or proprietary card internally --- Without using the external audio to the sound card's aux in connector on the outside of the computer... I ask this because I'm also comparing this mitsumi drive to an ORCHID drive (forget the model #). But this drive claims to support all the mentioned criteria, including CD-I (although I have not been successfull in finding software to test the claim). This ORCHID drive is 300k/sec with 350/ms average seek. While the Mitsume claims 350k/sec at 250/ms average seek. Thanks for all the other answers. I have to decide how bad I want CD-I? If at all. In article 151@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca, mjscott@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Mike J. Scott) writes: In article <19940524221536EZBZYAZ@mvs.oac.ucla.edu>, Christopher Hayashida wrote: >In article <1994May25.040224.27932@ccc.amdahl.com>, >scw30@mfg.amdahl.com (Scott Wade) writes: >> >> My qeustion is - Can it support CD-I, CD-XA, CD-DA, etc? Can I hook the CD-XA - yes (so-called 'multimedia' format) CD-I - no (CD-Interactive) CD-DA - yes (CD-Digital-Analog -'music' cd format) I'm not aware of many of the popular players that support CD-I. >> sound to my sound card internally? The speed looks impressive - >> 350K and 250ms --- but is it a good compatible drive? I have seen a great Sure, there's an audio out connector with a cable. You might have to use a different connector on the sound card end, depending on your board. It's easily modified by looking at the pinouts. >> deal of people having problems with MYST and some other games as well. >Path, and Rebel Assault without problems. I believe it is Kodak Photo >CD compatible, as well as compliant with the MPC-2 standard. (Off of Actually, I believe that this drive is MPC-1 compatible and only missed the MPC-2 standard because it has a 32k cache rather than the spec'd 64k. However, it meets all of the other MPC-2 spec's including speed, etc. >the box) I don't know about the other things you posted, however, >since I am new to the CD-ROM scene. I was particularly impressed with >the CD-ROM throughput speed, however, at 350KB/s in 'mode 2.' (I don't >know what 'mode 2' is, so if someone could please enlighten me, I'd >appreciate it.) There are two things at work here: single speed vs double speed, and two different 'formats' (this isn't the right term, but I'm not sure what is). The 'single speed' is ~150k/s while dbl ~300k/s. The two different formats allow something like 570Meg max vs 650Meg max. I don't know the significance of this, but basically, one of these 'formats' (I think the 650M) will be read faster than the other, resulting in a performance boost. Please correct me if I'm wrong. ciao, -- Michael J. Scott R.R.I., U of Western Ontario mjscott@heartlab.rri.uwo.ca 'Need a good valve job?' ############### Illegitimus non tatum carborundum. ############## --- Scott C. Wade, Manager, Printed Circuit Technology VOICE: (408) 992-2362 Equipment Maintenance PAGE: (408) 233-9458 Amdahl Corporation FAX: (408) 992-2700 1250 E. Arques Ave. M/S 170 scw30@mfg.amdahl.com Sunnyvale, CA 94088