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From: Pete Fenelon pete@cs....
Subject: more CD woes
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 12:39:37 -0400

At 11:45 AM 9/6/95 -0400, Steve_Kilbane wrote:
>It turns out that the PC I've been using doesn't have either a SCSI
>CD-ROM or a SoundBlaster. Instead, the CD-ROM is given as an NEC
>CD on drive 2, presumably on a secondary IDE controller 

It might not even be IDE -- IDE CDROM is a recent development. A lot of
early and/or cheap CD-Roms have nasty, obscure proprietary controllers.

pete
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