SUMMARY: Driver for CD-ROM Pioneer DRM-604x needed

From: Detlev Habicht (habicht@imes.uni-hannover.de)
Date: Mon Jan 17 1994 - 08:05:27 CST


Hi all,

thanx to all the people, who answer me!

This was my problem:

> We have a CD-ROM-Changer Pioneer DRM-604x and want to use it (with all
> features) on a SPARC 10 and SunOS 4.1.3.

> Are there any drivers in PD available?

> Other hints are also welcome!

I try the solution from bukys@cs.rochester.edu and from Martin Forssen
and it works very fine! :-) I am happy!

This is now my configuration (we use a SBUS-scsi-card):
 
scsibus1 at esp # declare third scsi bus
disk sd6 at scsibus1 target 3 lun 0 # seventh hard SCSI disk
disk sd7 at scsibus1 target 1 lun 0 # eighth hard SCSI disk
tape st2 at scsibus1 target 0 lun 0 # third SCSI tape
tape st0 at scsibus1 target 4 lun 0 # first SCSI tape
tape st1 at scsibus1 target 5 lun 0 # second SCSI tape
disk sr0 at scsibus1 target 6 lun 0 # CD-ROM device (Toshiba)
disk sr1 at scsibus1 target 2 lun 0 # CD-ROM device (Pioneer)
disk sr2 at scsibus1 target 2 lun 1 # CD-ROM device (Pioneer)
disk sr3 at scsibus1 target 2 lun 2 # CD-ROM device (Pioneer)
disk sr4 at scsibus1 target 2 lun 3 # CD-ROM device (Pioneer)
disk sr5 at scsibus1 target 2 lun 4 # CD-ROM device (Pioneer)
disk sr6 at scsibus1 target 2 lun 5 # CD-ROM device (Pioneer)

 

This are the orignal answers:

>From bukys@cs.rochester.edu Thu Jan 13 14:12:23 1994

It depends on what you mean by "all features". The regular 4.1.3
driver basically works, except for the audio features.

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>From bukys@cs.rochester.edu Thu Jan 13 15:33:59 1994

Put something like this in your kernel config file:

disk sr0 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0 # CD-ROM device
disk sr1 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 1 # CD-ROM device
disk sr2 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 2 # CD-ROM device
disk sr3 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 3 # CD-ROM device
disk sr4 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 4 # CD-ROM device
disk sr5 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 5 # CD-ROM device

As I said, this pretty much works fine. There's no audio
support, though. For that you need a third-party driver.

I know, I own two of the Pioneer drives.

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>From maf@dtek.chalmers.se Thu Jan 13 15:45:05 1994

In cth.mail.sunmgr you write:
>we have a CD-ROM-Changer Pioneer DRM-604x and want to use it (with all
>features) on a SPARC 10 and SunOS 4.1.3.
>Are there any drivers in PD available?

 You don't need any drives. Just add the following in your kernel config
 file, rebuild the kernel and mount them.

disk sr0 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0 # CD-ROM device
disk sr1 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 1 # CD-ROM device
disk sr2 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 2 # CD-ROM device
disk sr3 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 3 # CD-ROM device
disk sr4 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 4 # CD-ROM device
disk sr5 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 5 # CD-ROM device

        /MaF

-- 
Martin Forssen: maf@dtek.chalmers.se or maf@math.chalmers.se
System administrator at math and dtek at Chalmers univ. of technology 

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>From grobbins@Kodak.COM Thu Jan 13 16:17:05 1994

Detlev, The regular SunOS CD driver works with the Pioneer 604x. There is a Canadian company that sells a driver for the Pioneer, and claims it handles some error conditions better that the standard SunOS driver. The company is INSTAR Corp, in Clgary, Alberta Canada - phone # (403)264-7274. The product is called CD-SOL. I have experienced problems (hung systems, SCSI timeouts, hung Pioneer drive) with both the SunOS driver and the CD-SOL driver.

I hope this helps... Gretchen Mittelstaedt Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester NY grobbins@kodak.com

>From dlogics!ljm@uunet.UU.NET Thu Jan 13 16:56:37 1994

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At 11:27 1/12/94 +0100, Detlev Habicht wrote: >Hi all, > >we have a CD-ROM-Changer Pioneer DRM-604x and want to use it (with all >features) on a SPARC 10 and SunOS 4.1.3. > >Are there any drivers in PD available? > >Other hints are also welcome!

We also just got in a Pioneer DRM-604x for use on a Sparc 10/51 running SunOS 4.1.3. A collegue of mine has called various places and finally got the phone numbers for two (2) companies that supposedly sell packages to make the DRM-604x work on a Sun. These two companies are TracerTech (301-977-1398) and Instar Corp (403-264-7274). We have ordered the Instar packages, but have not received it yet. I'll let you know how it works when we get it.

Lewis Muhlenkamp (ljm@dlogics.com)

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>From pjc@denver.ssds.com Thu Jan 13 19:33:56 1994

Tracer Technologies 9200 Wightman Road, Suite 300 Gathersburg, MD 20879 (301) 977-1398

They make a driver for SunOS 4.1.3, Sun4M arch.

We use 3 of the DRM-600 models, which run at single-speed.

pjc

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>From jtcummi@sass165.sandia.gov Thu Jan 13 21:23:16 1994

Try Tracer Software from Inmac (not PD). They sell DRM-604x's with it. It looks very good.

Inmac 408-727-9292 Ext. 4512 408-732-0473 Fax advantage@inmac.com

Thanx to all!

Detlev

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