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mikeytown2 | 6 months ago

Sound Cards with IDE ports for CD-ROM drives were definitely a thing back then

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cestith|6 months ago

There were also a number of sound cards that had two or three ports because a lot of early CD-ROM drives weren’t IDE. You’d have a Sony, a Panasonic, and something else on your card in the early days. IDE on a sound card was an actual improvement.

shdon|6 months ago

The third common CD-ROM interface that wasn't IDE was Mitsumi.

Zardoz84|6 months ago

Yeah! I'm trying to get a Sound Blaster 16 with IDE + a VESA IDE controller working on a 486DX2@66