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In article: <3163c15e.116981@news.demon.co.uk>  gary@garyw.demon.co.uk 
(Gary Williams) writes:
> 
> I've just connected a Western Digital Hard Drive as a second Hard
> Drive in place of my Cd-Rom.
> 
> I've connected the CD-Rom to the Sound Card, Adjusted the jumpers so
> that the sound card knows it has a mitsumi CD-Rom but it refuses to
> work.
> 
> With the IDE cable from the sound card connected to the Cd-Rom,
> Neither the sound card nor the cd-rom will work.
> If I unplug the cable from the sound card the tray on the cd-rom
> ejects and the sound card works.
> 
> I've tried the Cd-Rom as both a slave and a master but it still
> refuses to work.

It is likely that the Mitsumi CD-ROM drive uses an IDE interface and 
ATAPI while the sound card has the special 'Mitsumi' interface found on 
their very early CD-ROM drives.

When I had the same problem, the only solution was to buy an EIDE card 
that allows up to four drives. (It also provided two 16550 compatible 
serial ports as well.)

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