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Re: Can't use Creative Hex Speed CD-ROM



        rani:
try to put away the jumpers at all - sometimes it work:)
good lack
MENAHEM
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At 01:30 PM 5/26/96 +0300, you wrote:
>Hi all
>
>I've also replaced my double-speed creative CD-ROM with a newer one (quatro 
>speed - CD420E). I made big researches in CDROM-HOWTO, in other 
>resources (news groups and lists) and with the importer of Creative CDs. The 
>results are the following:
>1. My CD is IDE ***but not*** ATAPI (this is what the Creative exporter 
>   told me). (Ilan Aisic - may be yours also is not ATAPI?). 
>2. The CD is connected to the EIDE of my SB16 and works great in DOS. May 
>   be it will work well if I connect it to my old IDE but I have no 
>   place there for it (I already have there 2 disks). 
>3. All my desperate changes with the jumpers of the MASTER/SLAVE didn't help.
>
>Anybody who can give me other pointers/clues to continue with my 
>"war" agaist my stubern CD, is most welcome. 
>
>Rani
>
>On Sat, 25 May 1996, Gilad Ben Yossef wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 25 May 1996, Ilan Aisic wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi Guys,
>> > I've replaced my double-speed creative CD-ROM with a Hex Speed.
>> > The new CD-ROM plugs directly into the IDE (the old one plugged
>> > into the Sound Blaster card).
>> 
>> Check to see if your CD's jumpers are set to "Slave" or "Master".
>> Most CDs come set to slave, in your case it should be master (cause there 
>> is no other IDE device).
>> 
>> Hop that helps,
>> 
>>               (__)   Gilad Ben-Yossef
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Menahem Lurie