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| Thread ID: 85313 | 2007-12-06 05:23:00 | Tech Advice Laughs | Winston001 (3612) | PC World Chat |
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| 618423 | 2007-12-08 06:25:00 | The old soundblaster cards had an ide controller on them (and yes, it was for hard drives!). And yes, it was clearly labelled as such. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 618424 | 2007-12-11 00:35:00 | The IDE interface headers on sound cards were IDE interfaces . IDE doesn't care whether it's driving a CD or a magnetic disk, or anything else. The IDE interface is just a subset of the ISA PC bus, with a few signals inverted, so it was very cheap to implement. The clever stuff is on the device controller. The early Soundblaster cards did not have an IDE interface. They had a (Panasonic) proprietary CD interface. (Creative used Panasonic CD drives, and shipped a small interface card with "Creative" CD drives sold to be added to computers.) One of the other proprietary intefaces had a 34 pin connector; the rest, like SB, were 40 pin, just to confuse us. :( |
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