Re: sbpcd driver

Jason Burrell (jburrell@crl.com)
Sat, 14 Sep 1996 19:07:27 -0500 (CDT)

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> I noticed some strange behaviour the other day. If I turn my speakers up,
> and copy a file from my cd-drive to the hard drive, I can basically hear
> the file being copied, thru my speakers: the data from the cd-rom is
> being played back as audio through my sb16. Not a deadly bug, I must
> admit, but its a little 'unprofessional', and could do with fixing.

I had a problem much like this with my old Mitsumi single-speed BUS CDROM.
Under DOS, I had no problems. If, on the other hand, I booted Linux or
Windows 95 (protected mode environments) and tried to play music or anything
of the sort through it, I got bursts of static on any IDE drive access. I
eventually removed the CDROM, bought a Mitsumi 4x ATAPI, and the problem went
away.

It isn't an issue now, but I'm still at a loss as to what causes that.