Just a brief question (or two I think)! I have a couple of toshiba laptops in IV Deskstations in my Win95/98 network. I have an old doublespeed Panasonic CD-ROM and ESS soundcard with Panasonic interface. Can I put these into one of the docking station? Or will it confuse the setup too much? Currently I have the CD-Rom drive in a Win95 486DX266 with 12 MB ram. Its working fine but would be better used in the network - keeps the kids off the real machines!! Nicki > On 3 May 00, at 18:16, Alan Priol wrote: > > > Will a VLB socket3 motherboard accept a CD Reader? Putting > > together a computer using a collection of spare parts and so far am > > unable to get the M/B to recognize the CD Reader. If this is not > > possible, will do things the hard way. > > If I recall correctly, most motherboards of that vintage didn't > include IDE on-board, and so required tha addition of a controller or > multi-I/O card to add this functionality. That *might* be part of > your problem.... > > Or it could be that your "spare part" CD-ROM drive, of similar age, > is of one of the several non-IDE interface types that were originally > common. > > David G > > The NOSPIN Group provides a monthly newsletter with great > tips, information and ideas: NOSPIN-L, The NOSPIN Magazine > Visit our web site to signup: http://nospin.com > The NOSPIN Group provides a monthly newsletter with great tips, information and ideas: NOSPIN-L, The NOSPIN Magazine Visit our web site to signup: http://nospin.com