Peter, I know exactly what you speak of. I have seen those cards with as many as 3 proprietary connectors, usually of varying lengths. This one is actually marked as IDE.

Fran
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  Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] ISA SoundBlaster Cards


  In a message dated 6/24/2003 8:15:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:





    Sorry Ian, I have to correct my info below, as my memory was wrong.
    After writing this email, I took the time to read the rest of the posts indicating you knew about the SB 32.
    This prompted me to do some more digging in my boxes of goodies.

    I found one of those long SB 16 you mentioned. It is jumperable and has an IDE port. The part number is  CT2830 - also circa 1995.



  Hi,
    If you double check that "IDE" port, I'll bet you find it may well be a proprietary port for a CD drive. Matsushita [Panasonic] was a popular one back then, used on their 1X and 2X drives. It is a double row, 40 pin connector, just like an IDE, but the pinout is different. Most CD drives used a proprietary interface back then. It wasn't until they got up to 4-8X that they started switching over to IDE.
    Sony and Mitsumi were the other 2 popular proprietary interfaces used back then, they were both shorter than 40 pins.

  Just my .02 worth,
  Peter Hogan
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