I penny-pinching is that so you can have two more settle devices on your system, or was it purely for your cd-rom, and if so would you get better narration by connecting it there, or be it just a convience article, and could you then hold 4 harddrives, or would it create a conflict? ... just curious...
I hold a couple of outmoded creative (legacy) soundcards, they own a place to connect an IDE cable, why?
Wow! I haven't see those in going on for a decade! Those usually came bundled beside a CD-ROM drive and, yes, you tied the drive to that IDE port on the sound card. In language of performance, I don't believe it would matter to a CD-ROM drive which is inherently slow.
I used to own one of theses support in the morning when CD Drives be new. It's simply an additional IDE controller.
There are two types. One that have a cd-drive connection (easy to tell-it's imperfect IDE, or a product name), and another one that looks like a cd connector but is really for the front panel accessory.
(similar to this one)
http://www.soundblaster.com/products/pro...
The reason why is when cd first come out, there be not ide, but other formats. It required a controller merely for the cd, so sound cards have the connection on them to control the cd drive. It after that developed to IDE connection, but in a minute no longer needed.
I think those may be SCSI connectors, for the aged SCSI CD-ROM drives.
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