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From: Edward.Starczewski@launchpad.unc.edu (Edward Starczewski)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Texel 3028 Internal
Date: 23 Feb 1994 11:49:11 GMT
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In article <2kckga$lrf@rmg01.prod.aol.net>,
CyberTrek <cybertrek@aol.com> wrote:
>I have a Texel 3028 Internal (double-speed plus) cdrom drive and a Soundblaster
>16 with SCSI-2 interface for the cdrom drive. Everything was working fine up to
>a point, then all of a sudden, I had a problem (still do :D) where whenever I
>play an audio CD (Duran Duran, Madonna...whatever...) it only plays out of one
>speaker. Actually, the right channel can be heard but it is very, very faint. I
>have already tried replacing the sound card, although I didn't think that was
>the culprit. All other sounds play just fine! What could be the problem? Any
>suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance. You can email
>to CyberTrek@aol.com if you like.

Sounds like you've got a couple of the audio cable wires crossed.  On the SB16
there are 4 pins in this order right channel - ground - left channel - ground.
On the Texel 3028 there are also four pins, but the order is different:
left channel - ground - ground - right channel.

It doesn't matter if you switch the left and right channel pins, but if your
feeding the left or right channel into ground - walalah, the symtoms you're
experiencing.

Ed

ps. Of course if you bought the proper cable, the above is moot, but if you
have the sb16 - 3024 cable or you wire wrapped the cables then the above is 
quite applicable.
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