[CLUG] Identify CD-ROM drive?

[John Hegarty]

try taking it out of the card , and putting it into the normal ide as a
slave drive. Those old mitsumi cards are useless.

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On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Peter Flynn wrote:

> I'm trying to resurrect an old IBM 486 which has a 1994 Mitsumi
> double-speed CD-ROM drive. It's connected to an otherwise unidentified
> Mitsumi card in the box labelled "CD-ROM DRIVE 16BIT I/F CARD
> 74-1881A" via a standard-looking IDE ribbon and a fairly
> normal-looking audio lead. The card has two Phono sockets on the
> outside panel, one red, one white, labelled L and R, which are
> obviously audio outputs, but it's not obviously any kind of standard
> sound card.
> 
> RH 5.2 won't recognise the CD drive at all, and none of the probe
> settings, especially the Mitsumi ones, seem to do anything. Has anyone
> seen anything like this before? 
> 
> ///Peter
> 
> 
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