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- Subject: Re: GUS CH Interface, is it regular SCSI?
- Message-ID: <92366.080650MEB117@psuvm.psu.edu>
- From: Matthew E. Bernold <MEB117@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 08:06:50 EST
- References: <unity.725735670@mcl>
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- In article <unity.725735670@mcl>, unity@mcl.ucsb.edu (Andrea Pessino) says:
- >
- >Hi, I'd like to know if the optional CD interface on the GUS is a
- >regular SCSI; I already have an internal CD, but I have a bunch of
- >other SCSI devices (a Syquest drive, a tape backup unit, etc.) that
- >I need to use. I was going to buy a SCSI interface, or even a PAS+
- >(in addition to the GUS) just for that. If the GUS could do it all,
- >it would make me even happier :)
- >
- Ok, maybe this will clear up the problems some people have been having
- with soundcards and CD-ROM drives.
-
- To use a CD-ROM drive with a soundcard, you need two things, a controller
- for the drive, and a connection to the soundcard so you can record from the
- CD, or play the CD back through the soundcard's amp. Many people have
- recently been confusing the two, and I haven't seen anyone trying to clear
- the situation up. On Creative Labs soundcards, the INTERFACE part is non-
- standard (NOT SCSI), but you can still hook up ANY CD-ROM drive that has
- it's own interface card to the soundcard's audio in (either the 3 or 4 pin
- CD-in connector, or just a line in) without any problem. Same type of
- thing with the GUS. If you have a CD-ROM with it's own interface, like a
- seperate SCSI controller, you can still hook up the CD's audio in to the
- card.
-
- The one thing I would watch out for is that most SCSI controllers on sound
- boards do not have very good transfer rates. They are more than sufficient
- for a CD-ROM, but trying to hook up a hard drive to that controller isn't the
- best way to get serious speed out of a drive....I'd check that out first if I
- were you. (Note: I have NO idea what the transfer rate on the Gravis SCSI
- daughterboard is, but I hope it's FANTASTIC, cuz I own a Gravis... :-)
-
- >Thanks in advance..
- >--
- > Andrea Pessino // Kiwi Software, Inc. // unity@mcl.ucsb.edu
-
- You're quite welcome, and I hope that others out there who are confused about
- this can straighten it out.
-
- Matthew E. Bernold MEB117@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
- <<APOCALYPSE>> meb@haydn.psu.edu
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