What is at the other end of the audio cable that is plugged into the Mitsumi card?

Looks to me like there are two cables and one should go to the CD-ROM drive and the other to the sound card.

thats makes sense to me what you said the audio cable is going from the sounblaster card to the cd rom drive ,but than whats the point of the cd rom isa card ?
because when i got the pc the cd rom cable was going from the cd rom isa card to the cd rom drive !

scroeffie wrote on 2020-12-01, 18:26:

thats makes sense to me what you said the audio cable is going from the sounblaster card to the cd rom drive ,but than whats the point of the cd rom isa card ?

Because back then some people wanted to have a CD-ROM without also needing a sound card?

makes sensen ,so the audio cable from the cd rom is going to the soundblaster 16 card ! and the ide cable from the isa soundcontroller is going to the cd rom drive

The CD-ROM controller interface on CT1740 is for Panasonic/Creative drives, not for Mitsumi.
The analog audio input, however, should also work with a Mitsumi drive - but make sure to check the pinouts, as a different cable may be necessary.

oke i installed the soundblaster driver and the soundcard is working perfect ,i also installed the mitsumi cd rom driver but it wont work i think there is a conflict !?
not shure what to do ,how do i solve this

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Is your CD-ROM drive plugged into one of the IDE connectors on the motherboard?

As noted above, the IDE connector on the sound card will not work with this drive.

no the mistumi cd rom drive has its own controller card witch is plugged in i installed the drivers with succes but it wont give me a letter ,i think there is a conflict with the sounblaster thats as far as i get

Looks like you are using DMA 5 for both the CD-ROM controller and for the sound card.

so the dma switch on the controller needs to be off or on ?

scroeffie wrote on 2020-12-09, 22:36:

so the dma switch on the controller needs to be off or on ?

The CD controller card looks like the DMA jumper is set to 7 which should be fine. Guessing you need some command line switch for the controller driver to specify DMA 7... maybe DMA 5 is default.

when i was installing the driver it gave me allot of options to choose dma irq etc etc just allot of things i have no idea i just pressed enter couple of times

Well, can you list what exactly is in your config.sys file?

dont know where to find this file 😀 its this i think ?

any one can help me figure this out

help

It's asking what DMA channel to use and from your photo the card is set DMA channel 6.

the software says channel but the card has no channels !?!?
i changed the jumpers and now i got this stil not working i think !?!?