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First post, by Kurasiu

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I recently found an old ISA CD-ROM controller and decided to put it to my 486DX2-66 build (DataExpert 4407 v1.3 board, Cirrus Logic VLB graphic card with HDD/FDD/serial/paraller controllers) While the CD-ROM lights up and operates just fine, I'm completely unable to configure it, either via the oakcdrom/mscdex or shcdx/xgcdrom drivers (both return that no CD-ROM drives were found). Trying to load them via the standard DEVICEHIGH/LOADHIGH command and /D:MSCD001 name

I admit, I don't have much experience with the CD-ROM in 486 systems, so I'm not sure whether I'm doing something wrong, or any additional card driver is required to be loaded before the CD-ROM one.

Pic of the card:

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Reply 1 of 1, by derSammler

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That's most likely not for IDE CD-ROM drives. Otherwise it would have jumpers to set base address and IRQ, and it wouldn't have that square chip in the middle.