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Xref: sserve comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard:19047 comp.os.386bsd.questions:5034 aus.computers.linux:494 comp.os.linux:54691 aus.computers:1832 aus.computers.ibm-pc:3649 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!uqcspe!cs.uq.oz.au!gjn From: gjn@cs.uq.oz.au (Geoff Newton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,comp.os.386bsd.questions,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux,aus.computers,aus.computers.ibm-pc Subject: [Q] PAS-16,SCSI,dos,unix Summary: [Q] anyone with experience with PAS-16 SCSI and dos and unix Keywords: pro audio spectrum,scsi,dos,linux,386bsd,unix,sound,soundcard Message-ID: <15392@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Date: 13 Sep 93 23:51:12 GMT Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au Reply-To: gjn@cs.uq.oz.au Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard Lines: 32 Hi fellow netters, I am looking at getting a soundcard/cd-rom for my pc. I am also looking at supporting SCSI. I run dos and 386bsd on the same pc with 245 and 520 meg IDE drives. I was looking at a PAS-16 with SCSI interface. Has anybody succeeded in plugging SCSI disks and/or tape units into the SCSI interface ? I presume that the SCSI is SCSI-1. If I later buy a dedicated SCSI card, such as an adaptec 1542 or whatever, is it possible to disable the SCSI on the sound card (or even use both SCSI sources) ? Has anyone on 386bsd (or linux) had any experience with this sort of card? Is the SCSI fast enough (throughput) for usable disks, I seem to recall reading that it was only 8-bit. How bad does performance suffer if the sound card is not playing "sounds" ? What about if it is ? Any other suggestions for soundcards/cd-roms. I liked the PAS-16, cause it supported SCSI and the cdrom looked like it was a decent one. But crumbs, for $1700 (aus) for the kit, it would wanta be. Any help appreciated, gjn Geoff Newton gjn@cs.uq.oz.au