> I bought a second hand CD-ROM drive, a 12X Panasonic drive, or
> CR-584-B, as it's also called. It didn't come with any drivers,
> but it did come with a cable that I think is meant to be connected
> to a sound card. I've done so and it seems to spinning fine, but
> I don't know how to make the system detect this CD-ROM drive,
> and what sort of drivers I need?
For the drivers, you should be able to find em if you spend some
time crawling though the Panasonic web site (last time I checked
http://www.panasonic.com worked like a charm). I'm unsure on
how friendly the page is with a text only browser or in Arachne, so if
> Another question I have is this: From my old 2X Panasonic drive
> I have an interface card with a large gray cable that fits into
> the new drive but I'm not sure wheter the new 12X should be
> connected with this card, or if it just needs to be
> connected to the sound card?
I've got an old 2x right in front of me. That gray cable would be the
important one. The dinky little one that hooks up to the sound card
is so CD Audio can just be shunted directly from the CD to
speakers, as the CD-Rom uses it's own Digital Audio Converter
(DAC) instead of the audio card's for converting the 0's and 1's into
sound ;`)
The big cable would actually be a proprietary IDE type thing. It's the
main connection that allows data access to the drive. I've got my
2x strung in though the ol SB Pro, which has the proprietary IDE
interface built in to avoid the need of a separate interface card. I
don't know enough about all this other than that 12x might have to
be set up though a regular IDE channel (same interface as your
Hard Drive is connected though, provided your not using a SCSI
drive...).
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