First post, by emosun
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Do 486 machines natively support cd rom drives?
I have a 486 vlb machine which has an 800mb hard drive in it connected to an ide/floppy/serial/paralell controller. The controller only has a single ide channel.
When i got the machine it has a "creative" brand cd rom drive and the machine was missing a sound card. Will this cd rom be usable as a slave drive on the ide controller or does the drive need to be connected to a creative sound card? Does the ide controller support generic cdrom drives as slave drives or do they only show up after windows is loaded.