SpookyZalost
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ok, so I've waited a bit, made sure registration went through, researched a bit on the forum, did some google searching (how I originally found this place), but so far I'm having no luck, so I thought I would ask if anyone else might be able to shed some light on this dilema I'm having.
I have a PS/2 Model 50 running MSdos 5.1, works fine, runs the original simcity really well, and I've recently gotten a parallel port CD rom drive, which hardware wise checks out, loads up on newer machines ect...
now the computer bios picks up the parallel port cd rom, so I'm fairly certain this is a drivers issue, though I'm not sure where, and I've tried to use generic drivers without much more success than hardware being detected, I was hoping somebody could give me an idea how to go about getting my old 286 to detect the cd rom, which I believe is from around the same time (mid to late 1980's?), wost case, I may have to drill the screws because they are stripped so I can get at the case and see what the manufacturer of the drive is inside the enclosure, but I would like to avoid that if possible.
I don't intend to play music or anything, just be able to read larger data chunks than what's on floppy discs, however slow that may be, though I do understand that the amount of memory available might be an issue, so I'm somewhat unsure if I can get this much farther.
but if anyone might have an idea about how to get this working, I would love to hear some suggestions, about the only thing I haven't tried is finding an audio card with a parallel port CD connector, or installing some form of 286 compatible unix, other than that, I'm fairly stumped.
any help would be appreciated, and thanks in advance!
I have a PS/2 Model 50 running MSdos 5.1, works fine, runs the original simcity really well, and I've recently gotten a parallel port CD rom drive, which hardware wise checks out, loads up on newer machines ect...
now the computer bios picks up the parallel port cd rom, so I'm fairly certain this is a drivers issue, though I'm not sure where, and I've tried to use generic drivers without much more success than hardware being detected, I was hoping somebody could give me an idea how to go about getting my old 286 to detect the cd rom, which I believe is from around the same time (mid to late 1980's?), wost case, I may have to drill the screws because they are stripped so I can get at the case and see what the manufacturer of the drive is inside the enclosure, but I would like to avoid that if possible.
I don't intend to play music or anything, just be able to read larger data chunks than what's on floppy discs, however slow that may be, though I do understand that the amount of memory available might be an issue, so I'm somewhat unsure if I can get this much farther.
but if anyone might have an idea about how to get this working, I would love to hear some suggestions, about the only thing I haven't tried is finding an audio card with a parallel port CD connector, or installing some form of 286 compatible unix, other than that, I'm fairly stumped.
any help would be appreciated, and thanks in advance!