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Colin Lim <silhouette@wr.com.au> wrote:

>I've just purchased a new CD ROM drive (Sony ATAPI/IDE) & a ESS 16bit 
>soundcard (1688 PnP).. I have installed them myself as I know a fair bit 
>about PC's.. *but* it seems I just dont have the full knack as I cant 
>get the CD to interface with the soundcard.

>If I set the CD drive to master & plug the interface into the soundcard, 
>win95 recognises the presence of the soundcard but not the CD. If I 
>daisychain the CD to the HDD (setting the CD as slave), win95 recognises 
>both presences but you cant get audio out of the CD. 

Do you have an audio cable connected from the CD drive to the
soundcard?

>The wierd thing is, the CD is *supposed* to be a Sony (altho it dont say 
>that on the actual drive but I bought it from a reputable supplier & the 
>drivers that came with it were Sony & they work with the CD), but the 
>data cable that fits into the CD dont fit into the SOny interface on the 
>soundcard.. I plug it into the Panasonic one (does this make a diff??)

>Can someone help me PLEASE!!!

You say your drive is IDE/ATAPI, but I don't think you have an IDE
connector on your sound card.  The Panasonic connector can use the
same cable as IDE, but it is not the same interface.

If you have a secondary IDE port in your computer, the best thing to
do would be to connect the CD drive by itself as master on the
secondary port.  Otherwise, you'll probably have to connect it as
slave on the port with the hard drive (which may slow down your hard
drive's performance).  In either event, you should disable the ports
on your soundcard.

>(btw, what is the CSEL setting on the CD next to the master & slave 
>jumpers??) 

I don't know.