In the early days of the CDRoms, there were several interfaces available.
Panasonic, and mitsumi are two that I can think of. They were connected to the
sound cards, and you needed to have the interface on that card initialized with
software, before you could load the drivers. Sounds as though you will be in
luck though, since it is a Sound Blaster card. They should have the appropriate
software on the Creative Labs Website, at http://www.creaf.com

Steve  W...

Bob Stout wrote:

> Hi all
> been lurking for a while and now have a bit of a problem..
> I have inherited an upgraded 486 with 12 meg ram and 1 gig HD and I cant get
> the CD to work.
> It had a virus so I formated the hd and tried to reload win95 but it can't
> see the cd player,
> I tried to connect it as a slave but to no avail the thing wouldn't start at
> all..
> I've tried the bios and all it does is look for a slave drive and wont see
> the CD at all..
> The CD ROM is connected to to the sound card.. It's a creative CD rom and a
> sound blaster 16 board..
> I guess I'm asking what do I do to get the thing to reconise the CD rom so I
> can load win 95..
> I have built 3 pentium systems but this old thing has me stumped and its
> only 5 yrs old
>
> Bob the plumber
> http://users.gl.hardnet.com.au/blgas/
>
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