First post, by johnnystarr
Greetings,
New here so be nice 😁 ...
I've built a retro computer recently with the following specs:
- Socket 7 Motherboard
- Pentium I @133Mhz
- 16M RAM
- IDE 52x Creative CDROM
- 2G compact flash -> IDE
- Standard 1.44 3 1/4 Floppy Drive
So far, everything has worked great. For some reason I'm having issues getting the CDROM to show up. The BIOS picks it up for sure.
I have the compact flash card connected to MASTER of IDE-0, and the CDROM connected to MASTER of IDE-1. I have set the jumper on
the CDROM drive to the MASTER setting. On POST, the Sec Master shows as CREATIVE CD6220-F. After the box boots up, it shows that
the CDROM is the secondary master as well. However, I can't CD to D: I don't see anything in the BIOS that allocates a drive letter to it
though. It's been a very long time since I've had to mess with this 😁
I tried setting the primary boot device to the CDROM and it said it was attempting to read the master boot record from the CDROM, however
the LED didn't come on or anything. I got this drive brand new as NOS on eBay. I suppose the drive could be bad, but IIRC these things just
worked back in the day.