Your CR-563 CD ROM is a proprietary CD, it is actually a Panasonic
(Mitsumi), so you will need to plug it into your sound card Panasonic
connection.  This is not IDE that is why it will not find it there.

Michael Slater
PC Technician

Bobby D Herring wrote:
>
> I have an old 486-dx266 that has WD 420 meg hard drive, 3.5 and 5.25
> floppy and an external Zip drive as the D: drive. I bought an old
> Creative SB CD drive, model CR-563-B. I was told to use the other IDE
> plug on my controller card and to put the cd as the only device on the
> cable. When I do this, it fails in the boot up with the following
> messages:
> Unable to obtain drive parameters from master drive
> Please check the jumpers and connections of the IDE drive and the HA
> Unknown IDE drive
> No D: drive installed in CMOS
> HDD controller failure
> Press <F1> to resume
>
> It then tries to boot from the diskette drive.
>
> TIA, Bobby Herring
>
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