thought I'd add this here...

http://mpolibbs.steptail.com/hardware/CDROM/PHILIPS/
there are some drivers to be found there for the philips/magnavox/lmsi cdroms/cards.

found it via this
https://github.com/AkBKukU/CM153-Repro
and this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W1t2_EJG9w

edit: don't mind the description mentioning ATAPI/IDE

Thanks, those drivers should do the trick.
Are these drives considered very reliable? Will be interesting if I can get mine to work.

I can't say anything about reliability.
AFAIK they're the original drivers.

nzoomed wrote on 2025-12-17, 20:41:

Thanks, those drivers should do the trick.
Are these drives considered very reliable? Will be interesting if I can get mine to work.

I have the CM205 single speed drive & CM250 card - I got the CM205 in a junk lot from someone and the CM250 was bought specifically to use with it. Didn't have a cable either and just used a generic straight cable with the correct # of pins.

I got the software from the mpoli bbs and that worked on the little 386 I tested it on: Re: Where do you attach your CD-ROM?

Mine is a non-motorised tray so it's not the same as yours but once the drivers were loaded it worked fine, so they're pretty reliable with my 1 of 1 sample size. I think I checked out the inside at some point and unlike my Toshiba XM-3301 drive which needed every cap replaced, this drive didn't have any bad caps.