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In article <31A23C9B.3243@wr.com.au>, 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.

Could your IDE controller on your soundcard be bad or disabled?

>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. 

This sounds like you didn't plug the audio cable into the soundcard, or you
may have a bad audio cable.

>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??)

The "Panasonic" is what lots of soundcards use for the true IDE controller.
The "Sony" interface is for older sony's that used a proprietary non-IDE
interface.

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