Hi,
I have a cd-rom drive with no jumper to select master/slave.
It's possible to connect to the ide controller ?
I have tested to the ide controller but it doesn't work.
It could be a non-IDE/ATAPI drive, intended to connect to a propriety interface, for example a Sound Blaster card.
Do you have a brand/type or pictures of the drive?
1982 to 2001
Need a photograph for people to advise/help on this I think. If you have it on it's own on an IDE cable is it detected by your BIOS?
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oldgames79 wrote on 2020-02-28, 08:33:Hi, […]
Hi,
I have a cd-rom drive with no jumper to select master/slave.
It's possible to connect to the ide controller ?I have tested to the ide controller but it doesn't work.
If it is 40 pin and no jumpers then it is not IDE/ATAPI . It could be 40 pin Panasonic or Mitsumi. Most Sony proprietary used 34pin. We need pictures of the actual CDROM back, top, etc if you need help figuring out which one it is as FazzaGBR said.
Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun
Cyrix200+ wrote on 2020-02-28, 09:01:It could be a non-IDE/ATAPI drive, intended to connect to a propriety interface, for example a Sound Blaster card.
Do you have a brand/type or pictures of the drive?
Pictures added
oldgames79 wrote on 2020-03-02, 11:59:Cyrix200+ wrote on 2020-02-28, 09:01:It could be a non-IDE/ATAPI drive, intended to connect to a propriety interface, for example a Sound Blaster card.
Do you have a brand/type or pictures of the drive?
Pictures added
The drive is an Aztech CDA-268-01a
This post says it connects to a Mitsumi connector on a sound card like the one in Horun's post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.sy … V0/eOSWhe3iaf4J
It won't work on an IDE/ATAPI port.
1982 to 2001
Originally the Aztech optical drive would have come with an Aztech Sound Card that would have had the interface on it to which you connected the drive to. As others have indicated, it's not designed to work on a standard IDE/ATAPI port I'm afraid so you better get hunting for the sound card!
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Aztech did not make its own interface, so there's no need to find an Aztech card for it. It's either Mitsumi or Panasonic, which were the interfaces on Aztech cards as well.
derSammler wrote on 2020-03-04, 12:29:Aztech did not make its own interface, so there's no need to find an Aztech card for it. It's either Mitsumi or Panasonic, which were the interfaces on Aztech cards as well.
Perhaps it's just me then but I think it would look nicer in the case if it matched! 😀
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Ok, thanks for your response.
