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? PCBUILD's List Owner's: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>