First post, by dosquest
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Okay, I have an sbpro2 sound card and a creative sb cd rom, it's the regular ide no scsi drive connection or anything, but I'm windering if I need to connect the cdrom cable to the back of the sb pro soundcard (see pic)
Wait, I noticed that the connector is diffrent from a standard ide cable
Okay, I found the proper cable, now I'm installing the drivers for the cdrom.
Well, when ever I put a cd in it and do cd d: then dir it says "not ready reading drive d" Then the old Abort, Retry, Fail? I have cleaned off the laser in the cdrom drive with a q-tip and I have inspedted the cd (Ultimate doom) and the cd reads fine in my laptop, the drivers are properly loaded for the, cdrom, the power and the data cable are securely inserted, what gives?
Also, I mean I have another cdrom dirve I can throw into hte system if this doesn't work, but I really want to have the matching pair of sb gear.
I forgot to mention it says CDR101 then the "Not ready reading" error.
SO, I'm guessing I have a dead drive just like this guy
Also, there were jumpers on the drive, with spots 1,2 and 3 the jumper was set to spot 1 does that mean master?
Okay, I have the original box and disketts, diskett 1 and 2 for the card and the diskett for the cdrom.Here, I will post pictures of the drive.
I think it might be a sony cdrom, the driver diskette says no company it just says "Sound Blaster cd rom installation cdr 563 p/n 140201-4"
But, do I need to remove the old drivers and change the autoexec and config.sys?
Okay, I just didn't want to mess anything up/
Well, I;m going to take a break I have been working on this since 6 am.
I reinstalled everything and still no dice.
Yes, I am using THE DRIVE THAT CAME WITH THE CARD! it has the same propriety connector as the one on the card, I also used the cable that it had, I have the diskette it says "sound blaster cdrom installation"
It even says "sound blaster" on the front of the cdrom drive.