At 3/24/98 02:45 PM , David G wrote:
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> There used to be three or four other (proprietary) interfaces for
>CD-ROM drives. If you have an older drive which uses one of these
>other interfaces, and plug it into an EIDE controller, your machine
>will probably refuse to boot. [It has in the cases that I've seen,
>but I haven't personally seen every possible combination. Other
>undesirable behaviours are possible.] So if the CD-ROM came with an
>interface card, keep them together.
>
Also some of the older Sound Cards had some of these proprietary interfaces
built in.
Doug Simmons
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