--- "Robert P. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's my problem: the card was made for the > 7200-7600 series, and the sound > cables are for a SCSI CD-ROM drive. The beige G3 has > an IDE CD-ROM drive, and the sound cables don't fit.
The audio signals are the same. Splice red to red, white to white and black to black. The black wires are ground and it doesn't matter if you connect two into one because inside the drives and on the boards they're connected together. Red is the left channel and white is the left. The .1" spacing connector (with or without retention latch) is what was settled on as the "MPC"* standard for 5.25" optical drive analog audio connection. The other connectors that're smaller were used by Sony, Panasonic and Mitsumi in the time before IDE CD-ROM drives were produced. All three used their own proprietary data interfaces and it was common to see PC soundcards with controllers built in for all three, or even four with IDE. Sony's was almost, but not quite, exactly unlike SCSI.** ;) ISTR it supported up to 7 drives. Mitsumi's interface supported up to four drives. I dunno how many drives Panasonic's interface supported. None of the three ever had a drive faster than 4x made for them. By then, the IDE drives had dropped in price and it was far cheaper for soundcard makers to just put an IDE interface on, and most new motherboards were being made with two onboard IDE ports. *Multimedia PC **I'm going to see "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" on opening day thid Friday, so I can be excused a HHGTTG reference, right? ;) It will be total Fandemonium, Summer 2005! Check website for further info. http://www.fandemonium.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Mac-N-DOS is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac-N-DOS list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/macndos.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:mac-n-dos@mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-n-dos%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
