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From: "Emil Josefsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 16:47:07 -0500, Harsha Godavari wrote:
> Emil:
> You can get the drivers for the CDrom drive from Panasonic
> site. You may have to dig a little.
I've found these with the help of previous answers.
Now comes the next tricky part, autodetecting the
sound card, since I assume the sound card needs
to be detected by the config.sys-configuration,
if it's going to connect to the CD-player.
The thing is, I can get my soundcard to work
from the DOS command line, with the help of some
DOS drivers that I found on the net, but I've
yet to figure out how to detect them at start-up,
and until now, there wasn't any need to.
You see, this card is am Aztech PnP 16-bit card,
also bought second-hand. It's somewhat modern because
it's plug and play, and when I first got it only came
with Win95 drivers. I had to search the net for DOS
drivers to work with this card. From what I gathered
these drivers weren't there to begin with, but
were written for Win95 users who wanted to run
the card in DOS-mode.
The driver file I load from DOS is called AZTPNP.EXE,
and when running from the command line it works just fine,
but when I tried to add it to config.sys it doesn't work,
the system locks up. I tried to add it like this, but
I'm obviously doing something wrong:
DEVICE=C:\AZT\AZTPNP.EXE
I'm also running DR-DOS rather DOS 6.22, maybe this
causes lock-up?
On the subject of the motherboard, my computer is
a 486SX-25 with a single 120Mb IDE hard drive, so
installing Win95 on this computer is not an option.
Actually, I'm considering buying a low-end Pentium,
I can feel the Microsoft representative breathing
down my neck, telling me how Win95 will solve all my
problems, autodetect my soundcard and CD-ROM drive,
etc. I have my eyes on a P60 (don't laugh) that I
can get very cheaply, it would interface well with
my other recently bought equipment, I think.
/Emil Josefsson, the second-hand guy
> Your new drive doesnot need the interface card from your older
> drive. The new drive's flat ribbon cable can be connected to a
> secondary IDE channel on your motherboard/ or Multi I/O card. Or
> remove the cable and connect it to the Hard drive cable (on the
> second connector, if you have only one IDE harddrive).
> All this depends on the type of Motherboard/CPU/ Multi I/O card in
> your system. So if you post that information it will help.
> Do you have IDE connectors on your Motherboard?
> Do you have one or more IDE harddrives?
> Do you have a Multi I/O card with connectors for HD/FD etc. If so
> how many IDE channels?
> Regards
> Harsha Godavari
> Emil Josefsson wrote:
>> 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?
>> 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?
>> /Emil Josefsson
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