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I successfully installed MS-DOS 6.22 on a 128MB compact flash card and added a CD-ROM. […]
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I successfully installed MS-DOS 6.22 on a 128MB compact flash card and added a CD-ROM.

The CD-ROM is connected to the sound card's IDE interface and it's horribly slow. Is this normal?

I also get a lot of "Not ready reading drive D" errors on CDs that are perfectly fine.

EDIT: if I connect the drive directly to the IDE controller, I can't get DOS to recognise the drive. I'm using the same bloody OAKCDROM.SYS that worked with the sound card's IDE interface but it doesn't work! It says "No drives found..."

It might just be that the drive is shagged. Our first two Creative drives used to do that, sporadically just give you a "Drive not ready" thing even though everything else was fine.

Oh, I resolved the abovementioned issue and you can read about it in the follow up posts. However, in the end I had to swap out the Pioneer 106S for a Teac 52X because the 106S had problems with a CD-R. It didn't have any problems with original factory CDs tho.

Keyboard looks kinda like a Model M with custom key caps

Only it's not. It's a Cherry G80-1000 😀

Finally received a MIDI cable last weekend and hooked up the MT-32. I must say, Space Quest III intro music just blew me away 😀 Only tried Sierra titles so far and everything sounds so much nicer.