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SubjectRe: Sound card IDE interface.

I actually installed an sblive into a machine at work a couple months ago.

The 40-pin interface is for their optional 5.25" drive bay "studio" or
whatever they call it interface, with DIN midi ports and 1/4" microphone
and monitor ports.

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.
>
> >You probably meant Sound Blaster Pro/16 or one of the other
> >variants.
>
> No. It is an SB Live OEM card.
>
> >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?
>
> Seems odd that a modern sound card would support ancient CDROM
> hardware... That is why I assumed that it might actually be real
> IDE.
>
> Any other info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
> TTYL
>
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