Setting up the Pioneer DRM-604X for cdAudio with OS/2 Warp

Last update: 6th November, 1995

I've spent some time, now, trying to figure out how to access cdAudio from all six platter of the DRM-604X CD-ROM changer. I'd like to pass the solution along.

The solution assumes the prior successful installation of multimedia support in OS/2, and involves an edit of the MMPM2.ini file which can be found in the

&lt;drive&gt;:\MMOS2 directory

where &lt;drive&gt; refers to the drive letter for the OS/2 installation.

Briefly: the [drivers] section is edited to point CDaudio to each of six support profiles named IBMCD010_1, IBMCD010_2 ... IBMCD010_6: The line should read: CDaudio=IBMCD010_1,IBMCD010_2,IBMCD010_3,IBMCD010_4,IBMCD010_5,IBMCD010_6

In this same [drivers] section user may also point CDXA to its six support profiles, if desired: CDXA=IBMCD0XA_1,IBMCD0XA_2,IBMCD0XA_3,IBMCD0XA_4,IBMCD0XA_5,IBMCD0XA_6

Following this, each of the six profiles may be constructed as per the following. These lines assume that the first cdROM drive letter is F: User may edit as appropriate.

Note that the critical entries are those for: "ResourceName= " "ParamString= " and "AliasName= "

These three change with each of the six profiles. Thus:

[IBMCD010_1] VERSIONNUMBER=1 PRODUCTINFO=PIONEER MCDDRIVER=CDAUDIO VSDDRIVER=GENCDVSD PDDNAME=CDROM MCDTABLE=MDM RESOURCENAME=F: DEVICEFLAG=1 DEVICETYPE=3 SHARETYPE=2 RESOURCEUNITS=1 RESOURCECLASSES=1,1 PARMSTRING=Drive=F,Model=PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-604X CONNECTORS=1,6,HEADPHONE,1 ALIASNAME=CDaudio01

The complete solution, including Cdaudio and CDXA edits follows.

[Drivers] ... CDaudio=IBMCD010_1,IBMCD010_2,IBMCD010_3,IBMCD010_4,IBMCD010_5,IBMCD010_6 CDXA=IBMCD0XA_1,IBMCD0XA_2,IBMCD0XA_3,IBMCD0XA_4,IBMCD0XA_5,IBMCD0XA_6 ...

[IBMCD010_1] VERSIONNUMBER=1 PRODUCTINFO=PIONEER MCDDRIVER=CDAUDIO VSDDRIVER=GENCDVSD PDDNAME=CDROM MCDTABLE=MDM RESOURCENAME=F: DEVICEFLAG=1 DEVICETYPE=3 SHARETYPE=2 RESOURCEUNITS=1 RESOURCECLASSES=1,1 PARMSTRING=Drive=F,Model=PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-604X CONNECTORS=1,6,HEADPHONE,1 ALIASNAME=CDaudio01

[IBMCD010_2] ... RESOURCENAME=G: ... PARMSTRING=Drive=G,Model=PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-604X ... ALIASNAME=CDaudio02

[IBMCD010_3] ... RESOURCENAME=H: ... PARMSTRING=Drive=H,Model=PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-604X ... ALIASNAME=CDaudio03

[IBMCD010_4] ... RESOURCENAME=I: ... PARMSTRING=Drive=I,Model=PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-604X ... ALIASNAME=CDaudio04

[IBMCD010_5] ... RESOURCENAME=J: ... PARMSTRING=Drive=J,Model=PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-604X ... ALIASNAME=CDaudio05

[IBMCD010_6] ... RESOURCENAME=K: ... PARMSTRING=Drive=K,Model=PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-604X ... ALIASNAME=CDaudio06

[IBMCD0XA_1] VERSIONNUMBER=1 PRODUCTINFO=PIONEER MCDDRIVER=IBMCDXA VSDDRIVER=GENCDVSD PDDNAME=CDROM MCDTABLE=MDM RESOURCENAME=F: DEVICEFLAG=1 DEVICETYPE=17 SHARETYPE=2 RESOURCEUNITS=1 RESOURCECLASSES=1,1 PARMSTRING=Drive=F,Model=PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-604X CONNECTORS=1,5,,0 ALIASNAME=CD-ROM XA 01 EXTNAMES=1,XA

[IBMCD0XA_2] ... RESOURCENAME=G: ... PARMSTRING=Drive=G,Model=PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-604X ... ALIASNAME=CD-ROM XA 02 ...

[IBMCD0XA_3] ... RESOURCENAME=H: ... PARMSTRING=Drive=H,Model=PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-604X ... ALIASNAME=CD-ROM XA 03 ...

[IBMCD0XA_4] ... RESOURCENAME=I: ... PARMSTRING=Drive=I,Model=PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-604X ... ALIASNAME=CD-ROM XA 04 ... [IBMCD0XA_5] ... RESOURCENAME=J: ... PARMSTRING=Drive=J,Model=PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-604X ... ALIASNAME=CD-ROM XA 05 ...

[IBMCD0XA_6] ... RESOURCENAME=K: ... PARMSTRING=Drive=K,Model=PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-604X ... ALIASNAME=CD-ROM XA 06 ...

Once the MMPM2.ini file has been properly edited:


 * You must close down and reboot for changes to take effect.
 * Given a successful reboot, you will find tabs for CDaudio01, CDaudio02 ... CDaudio06       when double-clicking the multimedia setup icon in the multimedia folder.
 * Clicking each tab, you should ensure that the parameter setting points successively to       cdAudio01, cdAudio02 ... cdAudio06.
 * You should also be sure that the drive letter option on each successive settings page points    to its respective cdROM drive letter.  Note also, that cdAudio01 should have "Default Audio Device" checked. For the other five tabs, this should not be checked.

Jim Torcivia