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First post, by user33331

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Hello ( Getting ISA ESS Audiodrive ES1869F PNP 1998 soundcard's IDE-port CD-drive working.)

Been trying half a year to get a modern IDE CD-drive to work through a very hard to use ESS Audiodrive ISA AK1868PNP sound card.
- Someone recommended these Audiodrives with IDE-connector and they should be "easy" but from my experiences it is bad.
- I have found only below site* that describes how to make a CD-drive work but it doesn't really explain anything.
https://flaterco.com/kb/audio/ISA/index.html#ESS
In a section called "ESS AudioDrive ES1868F (PnP)"
- What do these below DOS-command lines do ?

CONFIG.SYS
DEVICE=C:\ESS\ES1868.COM ( I have this and it just "enables" the IDE-connector. )
DEVICE=C:\BIN\XMGR.SYS ( ??? )
DEVICE=C:\BIN\UIDE.SYS /S5 /H ( ??? )
DOS=HIGH

AUTOEXEC.BAT
C:\BIN\SHSUCDX.COM /C /D:UDVD1 ( ??? )

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My commands below have not worked and "Driver not found" always appears.

CONFIG.SYS
DEVICE=C:\ES1868.COM /A:170 /I:9 ( Tried */I:F* also ) ( ENABLE IDE-PORT )
DEVICE=C:\DOS\OAKCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001 ( CD-ROM DRIVER )

AUTOEXEC.BAT
C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /V /L:D ( START D:\ DRIVE )

Thanks

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Reply 1 of 3, by canthearu

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XMGR.SYS = xms manager, just continue using HIMEM.SYS
UIDE.SYS = enabler for Ultra-DMA for systems that program things to PIO mode by default. Don't need this.
SHSUCDX.COM = MSCDEX replacement. I would recommend sticking to MSCDEX.EXE unless you had a real problem with memory management.

Now, to your problem, the easiest way to solve it would simply be to ignore the IDE channel on the sound card and plug the CD-drive in as a slave to the IDE channel with your hard drive.

Does OAKCDROM.SYS actually find any cd rom drives?

Reply 2 of 3, by user33331

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Ok. I use only controller card: ( and give up trying to use the sound card's IDE-connector. )
- 1pc CF-card(=HDD) as a master.
and
- 1pc CD-drive as a slave.

Is there a way that I could corrupt the CF-card's data by doing this ?
- Some forum says HDD and CD-drive "take turns" when reading/writing.
https://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthrea … -same-IDE-cable

CONFIG.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\OAKCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001 ( CD-ROM DRIVER )
AUTOEXEC.BAT
C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /V /L:D ( START D:\ DRIVE )

Last edited by user33331 on 2019-06-22, 14:25. Edited 1 time in total.
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