Kodak Photo CD on Creative Labs CD-ROM ???????

[JohanNobel]

Hi there,

I have a question about playing Photo CD's. I have the following
hardware setup :

Creative Labs Soundblaster 2.0 (not Pro)
Creative Labs CD-ROM upgrade kit for SB 2.0

This CD-Rom player (something like Matsushita ?? 1521 ??) comes with
an additional interface board unlike the one for a SB-Pro, that interfaces
with the SB-Pro card directly. As a driver for this card, I use the
file SB2CD.SYS.

I know you need a XA CD-ROM drive to read Photo CD's, but I didn't know if
my drive is XA compatible.
When I purchased a Kodak Photo sample CD however, the salesperson ensured me that
I could play it on the particular CD-ROM drive (I know, I know, never trust a
salesperson). The only thing needed to do this was a new version of the driver.
He gave me a new driver named SBPCD.SYS (version 2.0).
But whatever I try to configure this driver, it keeps saying : Interface board not ready.

My questions are : Is it possible AT ALL to play Photo CD's on a Matsushita (?) CD
ROM drive ?

If so, Is it possible with the SBPCD.SYS driver I described?

If so, what command line options are needed to specify the
Sounblaster address (220H) and the interface card address (250H)

Any help is very appreciated.

Thanx in advance,

Johan
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Johan Nobel, and Software B.V. Rotterdam, The Netherlands jo...@and.nl
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[SAEED FAISEL]

In article <43...@carrousel.and.nl> jo...@and.nl (JohanNobel) writes:

>I have a question about playing Photo CD's. I have the following
>hardware setup :
>
>Creative Labs Soundblaster 2.0 (not Pro)
>Creative Labs CD-ROM upgrade kit for SB 2.0

[stuff deleted]

>My questions are : Is it possible AT ALL to play Photo CD's on a
> Matsushita (?) CD ROM drive ?
>
> If so, Is it possible with the SBPCD.SYS driver I described?

Yes. The CL (or Panasonic/Matsushita 521, 523, 531) CD-ROM drives
are Kodak photo-CD compatible, single session.

I hear they are working on multiple session drivers.
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