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Date:	Tue, 27 Apr 2004 00:30:32 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: CD format identification utility/driver ?

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Overview: I want to know how OS/2 can read a data CD containing WAV
files that was burned on a Mac.
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I'm using a new recording studio which has Mac equipment instead of a PC
with Windows. The CDs which the Windows-based studios created can be
read by my OS/2 machine, but the CDs which I'm getting from the new
Mac-based studio cannot.

These are not audio CDs, they are WAV file CDs. The audio CDs that
these studios make can be played on my OS/2 machine; it's just the data
WAV file CDs that don't work.

The popup error message I get when I put one of these WAV CDs in my
drive is:

Workplace Shell
The drive or diskette is not formatted correctly.
OK Cancel Help

Clicking the Help button just brings up some possible diskette problems
(such as a double density diskette in a single-density drive), nothing
about CDs.

I had the studio engineer burn some test CDs in every possible data
format that the Mac could create. None of these test data CDs are
readable. I tried contacting the company that makes the Mac CD burner
software (Roxio) but their tech guy is on vacation for at least another
week.

Here are my own machine's storage subsystem CONFIG.SYS lines:

DISKCACHE=D,LW
BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD
BASEDEV=IBM2FLPY.ADD
BASEDEV=XDFLOPPY.FLT
BASEDEV=DANIS506.ADD
BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD
DEVICE=G:\OS2\BOOT\OS2CDROM.DMD /Q
IFS=G:\OS2\BOOT\CDFS.IFS /W /Q
DEVICE=G:\OS2\MDOS\VCDROM.SYS
BASEDEV=IBMATAPI.FLT
BASEDEV=IBMIDECD.FLT

Question #1: Is there a utility I can run that will identify the format
of these WAV data CDs that were burned on the Mac? Knowing the format
would help in determining a workaround.

Question #2: How can I read these Mac WAV data CDs on my OS/2 machine?

- Peter

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