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From: staffan@Sweden.Sun.COM (Staffan Winstrom - Sun Sweden)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Real SCSI port on SoundBlaster 16???
Date: 24 Feb 1994 15:14:07 GMT
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Yes, I'm using a SB16 SCSI-2 with 2 hard-disks connected and occasionally 1 Sun CDROM and
a DAT tape for backup of the hard-disks (with GNU-tar). I am only running it with DOS and 
Windows. You should be aware of that there are at least 2 different kinds of SB16 and the
one I'm using is the one explicitly called SB16 SCSI-2. The SB16 without SCSI-2 suffix has 
probably not a real SCSI port but merley a CDROM port (maybe SCSI) with slow transfer rates.
 

Staffan


In article 4vw@avalon.chinalake.navy.mil, bill@peewee.chinalake.navy.mil (Bill Theis) writes:
>so who's right???? Mike here says "no" to running drives from Soundblaster16 -- but the previous followup says "yes"!  anyone out there doing this?
>
>
>mbowen@vnet.IBM.COM wrote:
>:   I talked to a salesman the other day who indicated that the SCSI port on
>: the SB-16 was not "real" SCSI.  ie you can use it to hook a CD-rom to but it
>: doesnt support any other devices.
>
>:   Mike