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Asked: 2021-12-13T09:42:46+00:00 In:

How To Setup a CD Drive On a 486

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I need to install a CD Drive on my Z-Station 510 motherboard. It has an onboard IDE controller with two connectors. I’m not sure if I can hook up a drive to one of those, or if I’ll need to use a proprietary sound card model of some sort. None of the CD Drives I have work, and I don’t know the “top speed” for such an old board. Ideas?
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      I found a few setup disks with CD drivers and Mouse drivers, from Samsung and Mitsumi, respectively. Both installed and took care of the system file business themselves, and both worked well. The SSCDROM.SYS in the Samsung disk was version 2.4, and stated it was also good for CD and DVD drives.

      I still had no luck getting my LG combo drive to be recognized. I tried 6 different drivers, and no dice with each. I’ll be testing that drive in a modern linux box soon, and I’ll try an identical one to see if it is just that particular drive.

      The ancient hard drive I’ve been using started doing stunts with its actuator arm after the CD driver install, but it went back to normal after a few reboots. The disk may be dying. I have others to use should it fail, and I’m going to do an experiment with Compact Flash when the parts come in.

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