[9fans] CD-ROM drive that plugs into SoundBlaster?

[9fans] CD-ROM drive that plugs into SoundBlaster?

[Matt Senecal]

I'm building a terminal out of a '486 (and taking a walk down memory lane!).
The only CD-ROM drive I have left is one that plugs into a SoundBlaster 16.
Can Plan 9 use one of these drives?

Re: [9fans] CD-ROM drive that plugs into SoundBlaster?

[Ian Cooper]

> I'm building a terminal out of a '486 (and taking a walk down memory lane!).
> The only CD-ROM drive I have left is one that plugs into a SoundBlaster 16.
> Can Plan 9 use one of these drives?

Is the SB16 just acting as a SCSI controller?  I had a Pro Audio
Spectrum 16 sound card that worked that way with an old SCSI 2X CD-ROM
for a 486-66

Re: [9fans] CD-ROM drive that plugs into SoundBlaster?

[Matt Senecal]

I haven't a clue. The drive was a hand-me-down that came attached to
the SB card, and I have yet to ID it.

> Is the SB16 just acting as a SCSI controller?  I had a Pro Audio
> Spectrum 16 sound card that worked that way with an old SCSI 2X CD-ROM
> for a 486-66

Re: [9fans] CD-ROM drive that plugs into SoundBlaster?

[Douglas A. Gwyn]

Ian Cooper wrote:
> Is the SB16 just acting as a SCSI controller?

There have been three SB16 CD-ROM interfaces of which I
am aware: a Toshiba-specific I/F, an IDE I/F, and a SCSI
I/F.  Generally speaking these require special drivers and
have thus not been widely supported by non-Microsoft OSes.

Re: [9fans] CD-ROM drive that plugs into SoundBlaster?

[Matt Senecal]

Ok, here's what I've found out: the card I've got has a Panasonic/MKE
interface, and the drive plugged into it can only be run through that
interface. Looks like I'm out of luck!


"Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net> wrote in message
news:3BE03988.D24110C@null.net...
> Ian Cooper wrote:
> > Is the SB16 just acting as a SCSI controller?
>
> There have been three SB16 CD-ROM interfaces of which I
> am aware: a Toshiba-specific I/F, an IDE I/F, and a SCSI
> I/F.  Generally speaking these require special drivers and
> have thus not been widely supported by non-Microsoft OSes.

Re: [9fans] CD-ROM drive that plugs into SoundBlaster?

[jmk]

On Tue Oct 30 13:05:30 EST 2001, msenecal@inri.com wrote:
> I'm building a terminal out of a '486 (and taking a walk down memory lane!).
> The only CD-ROM drive I have left is one that plugs into a SoundBlaster 16.
> Can Plan 9 use one of these drives?

There were lots of different flavours of CD-ROM on the Soundblaster,
you'd need to be more specific as to the Soundblaster and CD-ROM type
(there's a code on the corner of the Soundblaster card which you can
use to identify the model on the Creative website. The Plan 9 2nd
Edition had support for some of those cards, but not all; the drivers
were never updated and are not included in the current release.

As Russ says, ATAPI controllers and drives can be had for pracatically
nothing.

Re: [9fans] CD-ROM drive that plugs into SoundBlaster?

[Russ Cox]

> I'm building a terminal out of a '486 (and taking a walk down memory lane!).
> The only CD-ROM drive I have left is one that plugs into a SoundBlaster 16.
> Can Plan 9 use one of these drives?

Sorry, no luck. Any of the standard ATAPI CD readers will
work, though, and they're remarkably cheap these days.

Russ