If you want the low cost answer, I think a new sound card that has
IDE is the way to fix this.  It won't cost much more than the IDE
disk controller, and you have the old sound card to sell to help pay
for it.  Later if you upgrade to a new motherboard the IDE controller
would be useless anyway, but the new sound card will fit right in.
Tom Turak
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On 13 May 98 at 22:29, Dante_D._Lo wrote:

>         This post is an answer for Tom and Earl that asked the
> model of my Sound Blaster card.
>
> It's a Creative card  (In my manual says "CT 2779").

  The closest I can find on Creative's Web site is CT 2770.

> It has an IDE connector, but in the manual says
> that only PANSONIC or CREATIVE CD-ROMs can be connected to it,
> nevertheless I tried to connect my CD-ROM there, and... nothing :-(.

  It's *not* IDE -- it's a Panasonic interface, including Panasonic
drives sold under Creative's label.  There are about 4 common CD-ROM
interfaces[*] that are the same shape and size as IDE, but they're
not IDE.  [If you plug one of these non-IDE drives into an IDE
channel, the PC won't boot.  I don't know what happens the other way
around, but "nothing :-(" is probably about the best you can hope
for.

[*] Mitsumi and Sony also have/had their own interfaces, and I think
I've forgotten one.

David G