First post, by headmeter
I'm having some trouble getting a cd-rom drive set up in my 486. I recently purchased a Creative CT1870 IDE controller card and that seems to be the source of my problems but I can't quite figure out what to do next. With everything hooked up, and after editing my autoexec.bat and config.sys, I keep getting a "No CD-ROM drive detected" error. Here's all the troubleshooting steps I've taken so far:
- Tried several different drivers including oakcdrom.sys, vide-cdd.sys, and atapicd.sys - same result with all of them
- Verified the cd drive was working by testing in another computer
- Verified the IDE cable was working by testing in another computer, with multiple drives including the one I'm installing in my 486
- Tried installing a different cd-rom drive in the 486
- Tried everything with and without any other peripherals plugged in (the only other thing I have plugged in is a Soundblaster 16 (CT1740))
- Removed all the SB16-related stuff from autoexec.bat
- Tried the controller card in different ISA slots
All that leads me to believe something is up with the controller card or how it's set up. It doesn't have any jumpers or anything so I'm not sure what my options are for changing any configuration settings with it. Any advice on what I can try to get this thing working?
The cd-rom drive in question is a Compaq CDU701-Q1 32x, and I'm using DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1