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SubjectRe: Sound card IDE interface.
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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