No John, you can not hook it up to a standard IDE port
Those older CD units used a special (custom) interface.

Jim Meagher

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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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