First post, by mav85ale
Good morning everyone,
I wrote in an old discussion but I prefer to create a special one because the problem was not exactly the same.
I would like to insert a cd player in my Olivetti M290, 386SX 16MHz, 4MB of ram, 100MB HDD and Tseng Labs ET3000.
obviously the pc doesn't have a CDROM controller
I first tried with an ESS Audio Drive to realize that none of the Panasonic / Mitsumi / Sony channels allow you to connect standard IDE CD players.
Now I put an Opti 82c931 with Philips PCA82CR 8X CD player.
I installed the opti floppy and at startup the CDSETUP.SYSche server driver is loaded to enable the CDROM interface.
Port 168 and IRQ 10 are assigned (although a strange value is assigned in config.sys / P: 376,168 / I: A)
Now the problem:
any driver I load the cd player is not detected .. I tried VIDE-CDD.SYS (the "specific" one of the philips), OAKCDROM.SYS, GSCDROM.SYS and some more ...
I tried 3 different IDE cables
some advice?
Olivetti M290 / 386SX 16MHz / 4MB / 100MB HDD / TSENG ET3000 / Opti 82c931
Commodore 486DX33C / 486DX2 66MHz / 8MB / 500MB HDD / WD90c30 / Vibra16
Pentium MMX 233MHz / 64MB / 8.4GB HDD / Millennium II 4MB / 3Dfx Voodoo / Creative SoundBlaster AWE64 GOLD