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From: hikonen@clinet.fi (Harri Ikonen)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.gus
Subject: Help! GUS MAX CD3 and Panasonic CD-ROM
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Date: 31 Jul 1994 11:09:09 +0300
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I'm having trouble getting my new GUS MAX CD3 work with Panasonic CR-562-B
CD-ROM drive. If I load ULTRINIT.EXE in my startup, MSCDEX.EXE waits for
a while and detects the drive, but if I try to access the drive later, the
connection fails. Also, if the GUS plays a sound, the CD-ROM drive spins.
However, if I remove ULTRINIT.EXE, the drive works fine.
 
It seems that the problem is in the UltraSound initialization. I've checked
for any DMA/IRQ conflicts and tried every single possible setup configuration
too, but I haven't found anything. I have a SoundBlaster Pro installed as
well (I don't have parity check in my CMOS, so I'm using it instead of SBOS)
and the CD-ROM drive works fine with it.
 
Here's my current configuration:
 
SoundBlaster Pro: Base 220, IRQ 5, DMA 1
Gravis UltraSound MAX: Base 240, IRQ 11, DMA 3, CD-ROM 340
 
Now the big question: Is there a way to make the CD-ROM work with GUS or
should I plug it back to SBPro? Thanks in advance for any help!
 
Harri Ikonen
hikonen@clinet.fi