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Colin McQueen <cmcqueen@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

> Whenever I have a CD player app eg.

> SampleCD by Paul Wilkinson RTracker by Ian Clark

> my hard disc light flickers regularly.  it goes about 1 flash per sec.

This is normal, since it's not your harddisc light. it's the IDE bus
activity light. the CDROM shares the bus, so the light flashes every so
often when the computer reads the track position etc.

> Any attempt at CD sound sampling gives a sample that screeches. This is
> using Eesox's CDRAudio 1.04 and Paul's  SampleCD 1.16 (Paul has been
> very helpful trying to sort this out - Thanks Paul :-) )

> I have a RiscPC SA with 512MB IDE as bog standard and an Eesox quad
> speed IDE CDROM drive

> Module is: CDFSResources   2.34 (25 Jan 1996) Module is: CDFSdriver     
> 2.33 (03 Feb 1995) Module is: CDFSSoftChinon  1.02 (19 Dec 1994) Module
> is: CDFSSoftHitachi 1.02 (19 Dec 1994) Module is: CDFSSoftPhilips 1.03
> (19 Dec 1994) Module is: CDFSSoftSony    1.09 (03 Feb 1995) Module is:
> CDFSSoftToshiba 1.03 (19 Dec 1994) Module is: CDFSFiler       2.40 (12
> Apr 1995) Module is: CDFSSoftATAPI_EESOX     1.26 (15 May 1996) Module
> is: CDFS            2.29 (19 Jun 1995)

> I have a hunch it may be something to do with the IDE link/chain
> whatever being wrong so causing interference between them ??

> Any ideas would be helpful.

IIRC the EESOX 4xCDROM is a HITACHI CDR7730 - a drive which I bought for
40ukp from a PC dealer a couple of years ago. a hack to CDFS let it run
without paying EESOX's premium for the hack - which is by dominic.

This drive is incapable of proper CDreadAudio.

Tough cookies.

quick drive though.

-Ian

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