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From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
Organization: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica
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To: Cameron Grant <gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk>
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	Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: What is currently the best-supported sound card?
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Cameron Grant wrote:
> 
> to the best of my knowledge the sb16 now works perfectly for play and
> record.  please try -stable.  if you have any problems, i'd like to know.
> 

IIRC, the old ISA SoundBlasters don't support full-duplex operation or,
at least, cannot use 16-bit samples for simultaneous recording and playing:
one of the directions must use 8 bits.

Cheers,
-- JMA
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