First post, by pan069
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I have this ESS Edison Gold 16 sound card and it has an IDE interface on it and I'd like to connect a CDROM drive to it. It has support for Panasonic, Mitsumi and Sony drives. I have a Sony drive but not with the 34 pin interface as on this card, just a normal 40 pin IDE version. I also have a Philips drive. Both my Sony and Philips drives are from around 2003 to 2007-ish, so they're quite new as I'm trying to get CDROM working on my 286.
My multi-IO controller has the standard IDE, Floppy, COM ports etc. It's of a no-name Chinese brand. I've been using it for a while and it seems to work just fine. It has a bunch of jumpers on that I haven't touched since I got it. There might be a conflict with this card but I can't tell for sure. I did try another multi-IO card and I have the same results.
So, I'm basically like to do a bit of a sanity check to get the IDE on the ESS card to work for my CDROM drive. There is quite some information printed on the card itself (see picture) which I think is great.
I'm going for the "IDE CD-ROM" set up since I don't have any of the proprietary drives.
JP1: Don't know what its for.
JP2: Don't know what its for.
Sound set up:
JP9: Base port set to 220h
JP11: DMA set to 1
JP10: IRQ set to 5
Sound works great with this card! So no issues there...
JP5: (difficult to see in the picture but its the 8 pin layout to the right of JP4). The top row is pin: 1,3,5,7 the bottom row is pin 2,4,6,8.
pin 1-2 enabled (i.e. enable CD-ROM).
pin 3-4 disabled (can't seem to select a non-brand).
pin 5-6 enabled (i.e. IDE CD-ROM).
pin 7-8 disabled (i.e. use as secondary IDE).
JP3: (difficult to spot in the picture but JP2 is a 3 pin horizontal row, JP3 sits underneath that).
pin 2-3 enabled (IRQ15, secondary IDE).
JP4: (not sure what a CD-ROM port is)
defaulting to 800h.
JP12: disabled (no game port).
So, with these settings and using either my Sony or Philips drive, when loading my CDROM driver (the one I've used successfully on other systems with both drives), I get the message:
No drives found, aborting install.
I'd love to find the manual for this card and figure out what JP1 & JP2 are for but any insight and/or ideas on what I might be doing wrong would be much appreciated.