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From: ji@close.cs.columbia.edu (John Ioannidis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: playing audio CDs on HP CD-ROM drive
Message-ID: <1990Aug3.235007.19080@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: 3 Aug 90 23:50:07 GMT
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Reply-To: ji@cs.columbia.edu (John Ioannidis)
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I recently got an HP CD-ROM drive (it's really a Toshiba drive
packaged as Option 004 with my 2213 mass storage system). 

I have successfully managed to mount a CD-ROM as a filesystem
and read it, no problem with that.

However, I would very much like to be able to play audio CDs while
I'm not using the drive. The only documented way of doing that
is opening the box (a royal pain), changing the DIP Switch settings
in the back of the drive (a bit dangerous, since it involves moving
the flex cables) and power-cycling (out of the questions, since that
would power-cycle my root disk!)

I know you can play audio CDs on the IBM RS/6000 and on the Sun 
CD-ROM drives. Why not on the HPs? Am I missing something? 

/ji

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