Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Jul 2000 23:41:29 -0700 (PDT) | From | Joel Jaeggli <> | Subject | Re: Sound card IDE interface. |
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On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Rui Sousa wrote: > > >> Is it possible to use the IDE interface on a Sound Blaster Live > >> PnP card as a third IDE interface? > > > >There is no such thing... > > That is possible.. I do not have the card, nor have I seen > it. Someone else has one and figures they can plug IDE hard > disks into it. I doubted that it was an IDE interface to begin > with, but... who's to argue with someone that KNOWS that it > is. I figured I'd find out anyway before his HD's end up with > blown buffers.
There is no such thing. the interface you're looking at is the feature connector for the various expansion options for the sblive, either a breakout box for a drive bay or one in another slot... it notched in an odd location so you shouldn't be able to insert a properply blanked ide cable...
> >You probably meant Sound Blaster Pro/16 or one of the other > >variants. > > No. It is an SB Live OEM card.
probably it is.
> >Get the sound card right, use the right module and check it's > >options to enable the IDE interface. > > So I'm assuming then that the SBLive 40 pin interface is NOT > IDE? Is it then an older Mitsumi or Sony interface?
it's not a disk interface at all given that consumer grade audio outputs are pretty hot (+10DB in some cases) I wouldn't plug a disk into it...
> Seems odd that a modern sound card would support ancient CDROM > hardware... That is why I assumed that it might actually be real > IDE.
that's a bad thing to assume, you're likely to cook either you disk or the soundcard or both. it should have a little text that says feature connector silk screened on it. a picture of an sblive with the digital i/o breakout card that connects via the ribbon is at:
http://www.americas.creative.com/sound/live/sb-live.pdf
no pci soundcard I know of includes an ide controller at this point.
> Any other info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. > > TTYL > >
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