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- From: ncpmont@angelo.amd.com (Mark Montgomery)
- Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
- Subject: Re: Toshiba info wanted
- Message-ID: <C19zwE.DCB@amd.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 22:02:37 GMT
- References: <11536@prijat.cs.uofs.edu> <Orakel.66@sarpih.no> <C19tuo.84r@amd.com>
- Sender: usenet@amd.com (NetNews)
- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Santa Clara, CA
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- WOW! I've never `followed up' to myself before. Another first.
-
- In article <C19tuo.84r@amd.com> ncpmont@angelo.amd.com (Mark Montgomery) writes:
- >In article <Orakel.66@sarpih.no> Orakel@sarpih.no (Jens Kr. Kirkeb) writes:
- In which he posed some questions re: Toshiba drives that I answered
- thusly:
- >
- >I have both the 3301B and the 3401B so feel qualified to speak to
- >this issue. Locally (Santa Clara, California, USA) the 3301's are
- >selling for ~$350-$400 and the 3401's are going for $499. The 3401
- >is Photo-CD/multisession capable right out of the box(if your CD
- >driver supports this mode) but the 3301 is not. The 3301 will,
- >however, read the first session of a multi-session disk or a single
- >session disk. Toshiba America Disk Products Division (in southern
- >Calif) offers a 'send it in, get it back in a week' firmware upgrade
- >for the 3301 to make it multi-session capable for ~$90 that also
- >includes new drivers (they have several available, I have Future
- >Domain controller and they had drivers for it). I'm happy with
- >both - the 3401 is blazing fast but appears to maybe have some
- >problems with multimedia (mixed data, audio, video) stuff that I am
- >currently working out with Toshiba Tech Support.
- > Regards, Mark
- >
-
- A late breaking development is that this problem I mentioned (with
- 'Mixed Up Mother Goose' to be specific) has got to be the Toshiba
- drivers (CDDVR-05) and not the drive. The reason I think that's the
- case is that I just tried running the program in a full screen dos
- window under OS/2 2.0 GA+SP with the new beta cd drivers and it
- worked flawlessly. Seems like the Toshiba drivers (actually written
- by Modern Data Systems) need a little 'tuning up' to work well w/
- the new 3401B drives - they work fine with the 3301B.
-
- By the way - the OS/2 beta CD drivers work just fine with Photo-CD
- multisession also.
- Mark
-
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