Simple tool for NEC SCSI-I CD-ROM's

Information in this page updated: 12 Mar 96


Author:
Ola Lidholm Ola_Lidholm@augs.se
Version:
1.2
Software type:
Postcardware
Purpose:
small utility to control some facilities of NEC SCSI-I CD-ROM's. Such as playing music tracks, ejecting the disk and locking the drive.
Drives know to work with it:
Authors Comment: "It only works with "old" NEC SCSI-I drives (for example CD-R 210). To my knowledge all other SCSI CD-ROM drives are SCSI-II compliant, so no go."
Other software required:
scsi-direct compliant "scsi.device"
Other hardware required:
NEC CD ROM
Sources included:
No
File in ftp.luth.se:
NecCDTool_1.2.lha

.readme file from aminet/disk/cdrom

Short:    Simple tool for NEC SCSI-I CD-ROM's
Author:   Ola_Lidholm@augs.se
Uploader: Ola_Lidholm@augs.se
Type:     disk/cdrom

NecCDTool v1.2 is a simple utility to control NEC SCSI-I CD-ROM's.

Some of the NEC CD-ROM's have a SCSI-I interface, as opposed to most
other manufaturers, which have a SCSI-II interface. Therefore most
(all?) CD-ROM utilities are written to use SCSI-II commands, and has
no or strange effects on these NEC's drives.

The program can do the following;

-Eject the disk from the drive.
-Lock & Unlock the drive.
-Start & Stop playing music tracks.

Note: This program _ONLY_ works with NEC SCSI-I CD-ROM's!

Changes since version 1.1
   Added a command that lists the contents of a auidio CD
   (# of tracks, track lengths)

Changes since version 1.0
   Fixed bug that made it impossible to play tracks other than the first 9.
   (Thanks David Voy for pointing it out to me)


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