skimmble wrote on Yesterday, 20:38:

Has anyone installed DVD drive in their ICL Indiana? If so, how did you manage to get it to work?
Everytime I try to boot my MikroMikko Indiana with DVD drive connected, Windows 95 and 98 both crash to a protecion error.

Sounds like a jumpering/DMA mode issue. Does the drive work if you just boot-up DOS with a CD-ROM driver from a floppy?

Thanks for the reply. Any of the DOS drivers I've tried so far does not recognize the drive (Philips DVD8631/95) . I've seen other similar setup with this same dvd model - the drive was listed on its Win95's Device manager so I know it is compatible with Indiana. The mb is Acer V12LC-X2

How is it connected? Does it share a cable with a hard disk, and if so in what order do you have them connected to the cable, and which jumper settings do both devices use?

Possible pitfalls:
- HDD and CD/DVD share IDE-cable and HDD is jumpered for 'single mode' instead of 'master'.
- HDD and CD/DVD share IDE-cable and they are set to cable-select (no, it doesn't always work and the device ordering matters)
- Your motherboard allows inserting the cables the wrong way around if the cables don't have the requisite pinholes blocked (not all older cables do)
- Your BIOS has HDD/CD auto-detect mode and it is bugging out. If the BIOS allows, you may be better off setting the device settings yourself rather than using Auto

etc. etc.

There are a lot of things to try, so it would be helpful if you could explain exactly how you have the drives wired and jumpered along with any screenies of the relevant BIOS-pages.

HDD is connected to the primary IDE channel and DVD is in the secondary. Have tried both master and slave jumpering. Bios has been set with both "None" and "CD ". I also tried different IDE cable. All the cables are connected right way. Original Mitsumi CD drive works fine without problems. Also, I'm able to boot to Safe mode where Device manager shows none of optical drives recognized.
Attached are current bios settings.