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HELP! Ancient hardware CD-rom / Sound Card question

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ok, i've got an old Aztech 2x cd rom (model #:268-01a) that hooks up to an Aztech sound card. It's in a old system, so bare with me.

Yes I know it would be easier just to buy a cheap 10x IDE cd-rom, but I just need to use this cd-rom once, and it will go into storage. I don't have another cd-rom handy either, because I only have a laptop. So my question is, how to use it and boot from it in DOS? Since it hooks up to the sound card and not to the IDE motherboard, using an ME boot disk does no good.

I've looked everywhere and found nothing on the subject.

Thanks
 
Hmmm you can load the drivers for the drive from dos, but i don't think you can boot from a CD with that drive cause it's not seen in bios as a bootable device. I had a old soundblaster card/cd drive combo that wouldn't support it either.
 
after a little looking around, I found the Aztech cd-rom drivers, but now I can't get the I/O setting right. I've tried 300-340 and nothing works.
 
You're not going to boot from that CD-ROM. Being that it is a proprietary interface it will need it's drivers to work. You'll have to bbot from a floppy loading the drivers and then access the CD-ROM. I have an old Mitsumi 1X that I had working this way on an equally old 486/66. Good Luck!
 
compudog, would it be possible to send me a copy of your autoexec.bat and config.sys from the old system? assuming you still have it
 
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