Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:40:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jan Isley <jan@bagend.atl.ga.us> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: stupid sound card / cdrom question Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961021233933.4986W-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199610201716.NAA20975@bagend.atl.ga.us>
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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
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