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On 13 May 98 at 22:29, =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Dante_D._Lo wrote:
> This post is an answer for Tom and Earl that asked the
> model of my Sound Blaster card.
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> It's a Creative card (In my manual says "CT 2779").
The closest I can find on Creative's Web site is CT 2770.
> It has an IDE connector, but in the manual says
> that only PANSONIC or CREATIVE CD-ROMs can be connected to it,
> nevertheless I tried to connect my CD-ROM there, and... nothing :-(.
It's *not* IDE -- it's a Panasonic interface, including Panasonic
drives sold under Creative's label. There are about 4 common CD-ROM
interfaces[*] that are the same shape and size as IDE, but they're
not IDE. [If you plug one of these non-IDE drives into an IDE
channel, the PC won't boot. I don't know what happens the other way
around, but "nothing :-(" is probably about the best you can hope
for.
[*] Mitsumi and Sony also have/had their own interfaces, and I think
I've forgotten one.
David G
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