First post, by Scythifuge
- Rank
- Oldbie
Greetings,
I have an RCA branded Lyra (rebranded datafab I believe) CF reader which connects to a parallel port with keyboard passthru for power. I know it works because I used it in the past and I just tyested it on my Athlon XP machine in Windows XP and was accessing CF cards. I am trying to use it on my 486. I have DOS drivers installed and they detect the reader and can even detect the size of cards currently in the reader. The light flashes bright when a card is inserted. However, I keep ghetting write protect errors when I try to access the drive letter assigned to the reader. I have LASTDRIVE=H (two IDE-CF cards, two optical drives and this reader.) Parallel port is set to ECP/EPP. I want to say I used it with this 486 in the past and it was working fine. Like I said, it is tested to be working on another machine. I am at my wits end as I have no idea what could be preventing my 486 from accessing the device.
If anyone has any tips, I thank you in advance! Also, I am open to suggestions for alternative CF readers known to work on a 486 and in DOS and Windows 3.x.
Scythifuge