Malcolm Young wrote in a message to Peter May:

 MY> Hi Peter,

 > Already thought of that, I was wondering how to tell whether it was the
 > SoundBlaster card or the CD-ROM at fault.

 MY> There were also multi CD interface cards about that could handle
 MY> three type of CDROM , some Sound Blaster cards had an IDE interface
 MY> instead of the SB interface.

 > How can one determine if its the type that has to be run via the sound
 > card or connects direct to the IDE bus.

 MY> The early SB CDROMS could handle four devices on the buss (the
 MY> single speed was locked as drive 0) if there is a jumper for drive
 MY> select 0-3 or no jumper it is not IDE.

 MY> An IDE CDROM will have a jumper for Master / Slave (CS ?).

 MY> Regards, Malcolm.

Thanks Malcolm, thats worth knowing.

Regards,
Peter 
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