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From: dittman@skitzo.dseg.ti.com (Eric Dittman)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Need help with Sony CDU-8012S and Chinon CDX-431
Message-ID: <1994Jun1.124754.1853@skitzo.dseg.ti.com>
Date: 1 Jun 94 12:47:53 CDT
Organization: Texas Instruments Component Test Facility
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I recently bought a couple of used SCSI CD-ROM drives and need some
information on them.  The first drive is an internal Sony CDU-8012S
with rev. 3.1e ROMs.  I can use the drive under Linux and OS/2 with-
out doing anything special, but under MS-DOS I have to run a program
to change the block size from 512 to 2048.  This isn't really much
of a problem, but I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to set the
drive to use a block size of 2048 permanently.

The second drive is a Chinon CDX-431 external drive.  I don't seem to
have any problems using the drive, but there are six dip switches on
the back of the drive, and I have no documentation to tell me what
the switches do.  I have figured out that switches 1 through 3 set
the SCSI ID, but the rest are a mystery.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.
-- 
Eric Dittman                  Texas Instruments - Component Test Facility
dittman@skitzo.dseg.ti.com    (214) 480-7313
Disclaimer:  Not even my opinions.  I found them by the side of the road.