From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 23:40:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA04202 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA04191 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:40:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA05148; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:40:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:40:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Jan Isley cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: stupid sound card / cdrom question In-Reply-To: <199610201716.NAA20975@bagend.atl.ga.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Jan Isley wrote: > I have FreeBSD running on my desk at work. I want to be able to play > audio CDs on it. It has an IDE CDROM. I have two sound cards at home > that I can install in the system, a Sound Blaster 16 (matcd interface) > and an Adaptec 1570. Neither of these have an IDE interface. Can I > just get an appropriate audio cable to make these sound cards talk to > the IDE CDROM to do audio? Well, actually the ATAPI interface will tell the CD to play and you can pipe the audio out the sound card, or hook up a pair of speakers out the front headphone jack, if you drive has one. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major