Sony CDU-33, SB16 & Warp

[Carl O. Graham]

Does anyone know how to get this combo working? The CD-Rom works fine under
pure DOS, but not at all under OS/2. I tried the suggestions in the Warp
manual, but to no avail. IBM Tech support said the Creative Labs Sony driver
is broken, and won't work under Warp. Numerous attempts to reach Creative
Labs by telephone have failed (presumably the post-holiday rush of newbies
trying to configure things).

Cheers, Carl

Carl Graham (cgr...@ping.ping.com)
Racing on the Information Superhighway
With OS/2 Warp's PPP Connection

[Louis A. Duran]

I second this request for help as well as verifying that Creative Tech
Support seems to be swamped. I am not using the creative drivers for the
Sony drive. I am using the drivers supplied with Warp. I did the
selective install choosing the SB 16 drivers as well as the Sony 33a
drivers for the CDROM but nothing worked. It set up a CD drive drive
object in my multimedia folder and even correctly configured it as drive
f: since I have 3 HD partitions. However when I tried to play the audio
CD it gave me a device not found error and quit. Things work beautifully
under DOS with the supplied drivers.

One question, Has anyone had any experience with this combination under
NT 3.5. I am considering buying NT 3.5 because of the OpenGL support and
I want to know if it is painless (relatively) to get a SB16 and Sony 33a
drive to work.

Louis Duran.

[menagh david allan]

>Louis Duran

Interesting problems. I have a SB16, Sony CDU33a single speed, and things
appear to be working fine. I haven't tried to play any audio CD's yet, but
all installations work fine, and SB16 handles WARP's sudio outputs fine.

My sony is NOT driven by the SB16. I have a separate controller for it. Maybe
that's where the difference lies.
Dave.

[Wayne Ho]

Does this configuration no longer with Warp?

[g...@waikato.ac.nz]

Yes after a lot of playing around with this I have reached the conclusion that
something must have been broken. I found that I could get sound and no CDROM
or CDROM and no sound. (I manually added the /P: etc lines to the .add file)

The solution (for me) was to deinstall multimedia support from WARP 3.0 and
reinstall Multimedia from 2.99A Beta (Not 2.99B). This got the whole show
running fine.

The true fix for the problem is for IBM (They supplied WARP) to release a CSD
to fix this (and other multimedia problems).

Hope this was of some help
Mark Harvey

[g...@waikato.ac.nz]

Sorry to follow my own post but I read another question asking about NT3.5

The answer is Maybe It worked for a friend of mine with the same hardware
(Couldn't get NT3.1 to work at all). So if you are considering it then maybe
it does work. Another comment here is although NT3.5 is about 2X as fast as
NT3.1 it is still not very fast as soon as you try to multitask DOS or Win16
Programs. I use the NT3.5 Machine to develop NT software (For NT) and the OS/2
machine for all my other work. (an example of the speed problem I use
BorlandC++ 4.06 (no upgrade yet) to compile about 30000 lines of source code,
while compiling it takes about 30 seconds to swap to the desktop manager (Over
a minute in NT3.1). If have a fairly optimised system as well.

Hope this Helps
Mark Harvey

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[Charles J. Kelly]

Louis A. Duran (lad...@cse.ucsc.edu) wrote:

: Louis Duran.

Ditto!
I've got a Sony 31a drive and am having the same problem. I'm using the
Warp drivers also. Selective install goes through the mtions of
installing the driver, and there is a BASEDEVICE line for the Sony
driver in CONFIG.SYS, but nothing happens, and if you go back to
Selective Install it show no CD drive intalled. Tehe Sony SB16 combo
works fine in DOS/Windows, why can't IBM hakc it?

Jim
Jim Kelly jkelly@ms_unix1.ms.vitro.com
or
kel...@vitro.com