On 01/03/2013 04:05 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > isn't there supposed to be a cable from the audio out on the drive to > the sound card or, if using sound on the motherboard, to the > motherboard?
I remember that cable from my first CD-ROM drive. IIRC it carried a signal from the drive to the sound hardware so that one could play a music CD without much intervention on the part of the rest of the computer. I haven't seen one in use for a number of years. > But maybe SATA drives carry the sound signal in the SATA data cable? > Somehow that sound signal has to get to the sound card or motherboard. If so, then I would expect it would be part of the mother board printed wiring. > But I've never used a SATA optical drive, so I don't know how they > might be different. > > Wait, you said you had sound out the front speaker jacks. Then the > signal must be getting from the drive to the sound chip. I'll shut up > now. Actually, I haven't tried listening to a CD or DVD through the new drive, yet. But, more discoveries have been made. Stand by for my reply to Dale's post. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
