I'm conflicted. Or rather my P70 is conflicted.

So I got and have been trying to restore this PS/2 P70. One problem after another of course. Totally dead HD so I got the MCIDE (https://zzxio.com/product/mcide/). Works great, boots off CF card etc.

I ordered the Resound New Wave MCA https://texelec.com/product/resound-new-wave-mca/ for sound blaster sound to add to this machine.

Unfortunately, these devices don't seem to want to play nice with each other. Either card works independently (at least the adlib compatibility does as that is the best I could test from a floppy drive), but when they are in the machine together the reference disk throws up configuration conflicts:

This happens when either or both of the IDE channels (A or B) are enabled. The MCIDE gives the option of making each channel primary, secondary, tertiary, or quaternary. All of them show a conflict and then the configuration utility just disables the MCIDE. If I don't enable the channels the MCIDE bios comes up, but obviously doesn't detect my CF card since all the IDEs are disabled.

There isn't much to configure for the sound card as you can see - though I have cycled through all the port/irq/dma options but the same problem remains. Enabling the joystick port brings up a conflict error as well, but that is something I can live without.

I wish the configuration program was a little more helpful and actually told you where the conflict was.

I've attached the .adf files for both cards to this in case anyone can look at them and see any obvious reason why these would be conflicting. I was wondering if there was some sort of IDE conflict from the New Wave, like leftover IDE support even though this sound card isn't supposed to have it. The card is supposed to be a clone of the Sound Blaster MCV Model CT- 5320, which itself is a clone of the sound blaster 2.0. I don't think either of these had IDE support like the later SB16s.

I don't have much experience when it comes to setting up MCA stuff so I'm at a loss here about where to go next. I would love both of these cards to work together and it would be a real fun machine with some solid sound and a bootable CF drive.

Please help my dumb ass. Thanks in advance.