No John, you can not hook it up to a standard IDE port
Those older CD units used a special (custom) interface.
Jim Meagher
----- Original Message -----
From: "Capt. Zyla" <[log in to unmask]>
> I have an older packard bell cdrom drive I would like to use on an ide
> controller as a master or slave. It came out of an older packard bell,
but
> was tied in to the sound board.
> When I hooked it up to a newer pc and made a direct connection to the ide
> (second controller) the pc failed to boot. I do beleive the cdrom to be
> good.
> Question: Is there anything special about older cdrom's that were used on
> a channel off the sound card(interface portion of sound card) that would
> not allow use on a standard ide controller?
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