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First post, by T.C.B.

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Hello,

I have this old Media Vision card that I picked up a few years ago. Been wanting to put a Windows 3.1 build together using this card. Just wondering if anybody has archived the original manual or knows of a link to one. Probably a long shot considering how old it is.
I had the driver disk saved from our first computer my Father ever bought for the family. Thought it would be fun to try to recreate that computer, although I only remember this card and nothing else from that old tower. Ha.
I found a shop that makes custom cables and they still make the audio cables for media vision cards. Which is amazing.
https://iec.net/?s=Media+vision+&post_type=product
Just trying to find a 50-pin SCSI CD-ROM drive that’s compatible with this card now. (Might be another long shot)

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Reply 1 of 4, by dionb

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That is a Mediavision Jazz 16 card. Manual here:
http://ps-2.kev009.com/eprmhtml/eprm0/f1957.htm

Just one problem: the manual describes three versions of CD-Rom controllers - LMSI, Panasonic and SCSI - but only gives instructions for the first two.

However I can probably help - I've recently been playing around with an 8b SCSI adapter with that same Future Domain 950 controller, so it's very likely what I dug up for that card would be relevant here too.

Bottom line: you need the FDCD.SYS driver to put into CONFIG.SYS; syntax is the same as with most other CD drivers (eg OAKCDROM.SYS), so you just give a driver name that MSCDEX.EXE can reference in AUTOEXEC.BAT (eg: "DEVICE=C:\[path]\FDCD.SYS /D:BANANA01"). No ASPI drivers needed for this CD driver. You should also be able to use any other SCSI devices on the interface, but that's more complex - and you can't boot from it.

You can find FDCD.SYS in the driver pack I uploaded to Vogonsdrivers. It's in the pwrscsi4.exe self-extracting archive (which you can just browse with 7zip or similar).

I did't extensively test CD support as I was mainly interested in bootable hard drives, but it had no trouble detecting or reading from either a Toshiba XM-3701B or Plextor Plexwriter.

Reply 2 of 4, by T.C.B.

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Hey, thanks for the help. I did see that link you posted and printed it out awhile ago, actually. But thought it was someone describing it from their experience with the card.
I was looking at the driver disk I have and it may have been for a different model jazz card, not the SCSI version I picked up. (Double Speed Sony CDU31A it says for the cdrom driver)
I uploaded it to archive.org
https://archive.org/details/mv-16-diskette
I did find another driver zip file off the web so should be fine for the sound card DOS/Win drivers there.
I will try out what you have said to do once I locate a SCSI drive. Thanks again!

Reply 3 of 4, by JidaiGeki

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The driver disk has an Octek logo on it - a quick search for Octek MV-16 brings up the DOSDays website - https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/Manufacturer … vision.php#JAZZ - which says
Media Vision licenced their Jazz16 chipset to a number of OEMs, including Gateway 2000 and KTL (FCC IDs starting with KRN, e.g. KRN3261). It was also sold to Quickshot for their QS805, to Identity Systems Technology with their IDCDKIT1 who branded their version of the card 'CHIC', and to Octek who called theirs the 'Octek MV-16'
As the driver disk you uploaded has Sony interface drivers on it, a KRN3261 card with the Sony interface seems to be a likely candidate if you’re looking to pick up the matching card/your old card equivalent.
As for the 650-0087 card, that would appear to be a Media Vision Pro Sonic card (again, according to DOSDays). Keep us posted on how you go!

Reply 4 of 4, by T.C.B.

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JidaiGeki wrote on 2024-02-03, 16:23:
The driver disk has an Octek logo on it - a quick search for Octek MV-16 brings up the DOSDays website - https://www.dosdays.co. […]
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The driver disk has an Octek logo on it - a quick search for Octek MV-16 brings up the DOSDays website - https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/Manufacturer … vision.php#JAZZ - which says
Media Vision licenced their Jazz16 chipset to a number of OEMs, including Gateway 2000 and KTL (FCC IDs starting with KRN, e.g. KRN3261). It was also sold to Quickshot for their QS805, to Identity Systems Technology with their IDCDKIT1 who branded their version of the card 'CHIC', and to Octek who called theirs the 'Octek MV-16'
As the driver disk you uploaded has Sony interface drivers on it, a KRN3261 card with the Sony interface seems to be a likely candidate if you’re looking to pick up the matching card/your old card equivalent.
As for the 650-0087 card, that would appear to be a Media Vision Pro Sonic card (again, according to DOSDays). Keep us posted on how you go!

Wow, thanks for shedding some more light on this. I am going to have to find that KRN3261 card.
I'll keep you posted on the progress.

Thanks again!