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- GKPlayer enables you to play audio CDs on your Toshiba CD-ROM. You
- can also mark sequences on the CD and save them to a .snd file.
- The supported formats are 44 kHz, 22 KHz, Stereo or Mono.
-
- In order to use a GTool, you need the GTools.app application. It is
- available from the same source, where you got this GTool.
-
- IMPORTANT NOTES (please read them all!!!):
- - The GKPlayer was tested with a Toshiba XM-3401 CDROM. However, the
- program should also work with the 3301 and the newer 4xxx drives.
-
- - It is easy to confuse the device driver. To avoid this, follow this
- procedure to use audio CDs:
-
- 1. Click the 'Insert Disk' button in the GKPlayer panel.
- 2. Wait until the system asks you to insert a CD.
- 3. Insert the CD.
-
- Now you can use the CD inside GKPlayer. The eject button
- of the drive is DISABLED while GKPlayer uses an audio CD.
- To eject the CD, click on the eject button of the
- GKPlayer panel.
-
- If you did get the device driver confused by not following
- that procedure, it might be necessary to reboot the system.
-
- - GKPlayer does NOT play the sound through the NeXT sound system,
- you have to connect headphones or an external amplifier to the
- CD-ROM. If you run NSFiP and use a PAS soundboard, you might want
- to get the package 'PASPlus.0.99.I.b.tar.gz' from the archives.
- It enables you to activate the mixer on the PAS board and run
- the sound through that board. It is available via ftp from:
-
- ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (EUROPE)
- /pub/comp/platforms/next/i486/audio/PASPlus.0.99.I.b.tar.gz.
-
- cs.orst.edu (USA)
- /pub/next/binaries/drivers/PASPlus.0.99.I.b.tar.gz
-
- - ADAPTEC-Driver: All NeXT supplied drivers for the Adaptec 1542x
- boards in NSFiP machines up to NEXTSTEP 3.2 include a bug which
- disables the fast forward/reverse function of GKPlayer. DO
- NOT USE THOSE FUNCTIONS THEN!!! If you do anyway, it will take
- about a minute for the drivers to 'reconnect' to SCSI, the
- hard disks will not work during this time.
- If you are able to recompile a driver from the sources, which
- are available as NeXTAnswer #1556
- (1556_Adaptec1542B_Driver_Example_Source.compressed): In the file
- AHAThread.m, in method
- - (int) ccbFromCmd:(AHACommandBuf *)cmdBuf ccb:(struct ccb *)ccb
- (~line 189)
- case OPGROUP_6:
- #if REV_3_3
- if(scsiReq->cdbLength)
- cmdlen = scsiReq->cdbLength;
- else
- #endif REV_3_3
- cmdlen = sizeof (struct cdb_6); //<<<< here
- cdb_ctrl = 0;
- break;
-
- change the marked line to
- cmdlen = sizeof (struct cdb_10);
-
- This corrects that bug.
-
-
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