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> You cannot successfully SHARE an IDE port on a 386 with the CDROM. The CDRO
> will need to be on its own secondary controller. They are available for les
> then $15.00 at most good outlets.
> Even if you managed to get it to work, it would choke bigtime the first tim
> you go to use it in windows. MSCDEX for some reason really can't task well
> under a 386.
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Glad I didn't know that when I had my 386DX33 with an 850 meg IDE and a 2x
CD-ROM, or it probably would have quit working...   As it was, it worked fine
for me...  Magic works that way...  heh heh heh
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That is cause you didn't have 32bit access turned on in Windows.. It would
seem that it isn't MSCDEX that was causing the problems, but instead the
WDCTRL driver in windows for 32bit access that isn't compatible with th ATAPI
CDROM drives that are in use. I've experienced this problem OFTEN but always
assumed it was due to a DMA channel problem caused by MSCDEX on 386 and 286
machines.

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