First post, by soviet conscript
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I've been trying to add a CD drive to my 286, a job that I thought would be simple but its turning out to be a hassle
specs
harris 20mhz 286 w/ 287 copro
DOS 5.0
4MB RAM
SB 2.0
ATI VGAwonder+
it seems no matter what I try when my system goes to load up the SCSI cd driver my system locks up. prior to this I had no CD drive and a IDE hard drive run off a IDE/multi i/0 card I replaced the hard drive with a SCSI drive and added a AHA-1540cp scsi card. It detects my new scsi hdd drive fine and if the SCSI drivers for the CD are disabled it loads up DOS just fine and also detects the attached CD drive. If however I enable the SCSI drivers they system locks up on boot. I tried a few different CD drives to no effect.
at one point I got frustrated and decided i'll just go with a IDE CD drive so I hooked an IDE drive up to the multi I/O card but my auto install program for my IDE drivers would lock up the system, so I added them manually and I just get a "file missing or corrupt GSSDROM.sys" error.
I've added plenty of SCSI and IDE drives to 386 and 486 and up systems and this is the first time I've had these issues. is it 286 related? any ideas? maybe i'm not seeing something?