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First post, by Robin4

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I have been busy on my 486 build ( build story i will add later)

So far my 486 DX2 80 mhz is running great, running ms-dos 6.22..

Before i can do more here i need to get install one of those proprietary Creative cd-rom drives..
For this all iam using an Creative SB AWE 32 CT3900. It have a proprietary panasonic / creative interface and the IDE interface..

For now i have installed the soundcard and that one working fine, tested with non-amplified headphone plugs cheap model.

But the CD-ROM part is just the biggest trouble. For the planned IDE drive i have here a creative CD-220E drive MPC2 creative drive thats IDE (i dont know if its the same IDE as normal IDE, or a specific IDE from creative them self.)
The other drive i wanted to use it in my 386 build.. The drives or not tested, so its not sure it would work.. Only the CD-220E drive will play audio cds on the fly..
The proprietary drive i have here is called: CR-563-B and it also from creative and is 2 speed.

When i installed the AWE32 soundcard there was some point to mentioned, under the settings (in installation setup) if there was a cd-rom installed through the soundcard it didnt showed automatically the IDE CD-220E one
It seems only some older drives seems to be supported by default driver. Iam not going to mentioned them all here, but my other drive CD-563-B was also there in that list... Because it should be compatible i tried that drive.. (before that i had putting my system out offcourse) So i swapped the cable from the IDE to the panasonic one.. I alligned the red strip with pin 1 on the soundcard, and put the other side (red line) to pin 1 of the drive..

But iam not really sure which requirements the IDE / or proprietary cable has to have?? Is it possible to use a normal standard cable for that?
Does the cable may only have two connectors on that cable?? Iam not sure if a third connector make the cable incompatible when it is in the middle of the cable.

But to go further with the last story.. The soundcard installation setup have installed a driver for the cd-rom drive.. When its rebooting my system.. The CD driver shows up (iam using MSCDEX.EXE for the DOS DIR)
Its trying to assign the drive. BUT

SBCD001 saying: SBCD001: Interface board or CD-ROM drive is nor ready..

The weird thing is, when i run diagnose.exe i never see any options in these drivers to see which port is assigned to the CD-ROM port.. And i also didnt see any options to configure the right port and so on?

Can somebody tell me how to go further on this? My guess is that there is a seperate set available to do the configure cd-rom part am i right??

Iam also like to know how to get the IDE part running on this soundcard.

Does anybody have the settings for my CR-563-B drive with (ID setting)

~ At least it can do black and white~

Reply 1 of 3, by Robin4

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I have got it solved on the proprietary drives side.. I tested one of my 1x and my second 2 x drive, and seems to work fine with the driver that comes with driver package..

I only need to try out to get the IDE drive working.. And i have some new goals to do, that is making my own proprietry cd-rom cables.

Also i had problems on sound with Blake stone: Planet strike..
I had to update the AWEUTIL.COM with the one in malik driver update.. After then it seems to running fine now.

~ At least it can do black and white~

Reply 2 of 3, by Mau1wurf1977

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I had a 2x Panasonic drive (that's the one Creative uses) and remember hex editing the Creative drivers to get it to work on a Sound Blaster 😀

But all this knowledge is long gone. I find IDE drivers to be easier to work with with more drivers to choose from. There are games that are picky about the CD driver and won't play CDDA like Descent 2 on many drivers.

Good to see you got ot all sorted out though 😀

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Reply 3 of 3, by Robin4

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yes i was just the cable that gave me a lot of trouble.. Because standard IDE cables have a twist on the side of the connector i had to flipped the red pin 1 to pin 40 on drive and card..

~ At least it can do black and white~