First post, by SimonV
I want to use a cdrom drive on my BTC 1857i. If I use the setup program suggested in the youtube vid by Phil's computer lab about the ESS1869f audiodrive card the program gives as only option when it arrives at the cdrom setting "1: turn off IDE ( or similar )" message.
Since the card has the IDE port on it that seems rather weird. Other cards in my 386 ( with a 486 upgrade chip ) are a TEKRAM DC600 / LONGSHINE LCS-6641 IDE CACHE CONTROLLER and an ORCHID FAHRENHEIT 180.
I suspect the jumper on the board giving the chance to choose between IRQ 12 or 15 is related to the IDE port ? Any suggestion, I am really not at home in configuring old dosmachines. Actually it's Commodore A2386 bridge board sitting in my Commodore A3000T . It has it's quirks but I don't know if the problem is related to that.
Is it maybe because something else uses those IRQ ? Unfortunately I can't use the DC600 for a cdrom.
Sorry for the pictures being wrongly orientated ... need to figure out why they do that.