Hi Neil,
The old Creative drives and soundcards used a proprietary interface (the
most common was the Panasonic interface for the CR-503 double-speed drive,
although some faster models appeared), and so they wouldn't work on the IDE
cable anyway. The 'interface board not ready' message means that the driver
can't find the soundcard's interface circuitry or the drive itself.
Things to check are usually:
* Cabling - it often wasn't too obvious if the cable was connected backwards
at either end (i.e. pin 1 at the wrong end).
* Soundcard interface selection - some soundcards had multiple interfaces
(mine have 3), and so there's a bank of 4 jumpers toward the bottom of the
card near the cable headers, marked with abbreviated for the interface types
(mine were 'NONE', 'PANA', 'MITS' and something else). I think you'll need
'PANA' if possible.
* I/O port setting - there's a bank on the soundcard, again, plus a switch
to the CD-ROM driver in CONFIG.SYS. Make sure they match. The soundcard
would typically be at 220h, and I think that's what you tell the CD-ROM
driver.
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)
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