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Re; Gadget Labs Quad Card w Csound

Date1998-04-28 04:53
From"A. Archias"
SubjectRe; Gadget Labs Quad Card w Csound
 Hello;

 Had anyone tried the 4 channel Gadget Labs Card? They said on thier
web it should not conflict with an existing (ISA) ex. SB AWE32 card in the
system. Seems as though this may be the least expensive way to start
with Quad playback. A friend at work had a PCI SB clone who said the
audio sometimes broke up as his video (PCI) card and clone were competing for
resources. This quad card (w its own driver) is ISA also w its cache memory.
Seems to me this would be a better approach than 2 SB cards set to diff
address and int.

 Andy 

Date1998-04-28 05:10
FromEli Brandt
SubjectRe: Re; Gadget Labs Quad Card w Csound
A. Archias wrote:
> A friend at work had a PCI SB clone who said the
> audio sometimes broke up as his video (PCI) card and clone were competing for
> resources.

A badly-behaved PCI card (aggressively-driven video cards are
notorious for this) will screw anything else on the PCI bus --
including the ISA bus and everything hanging off it.

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     Eli Brandt  |  eli+@cs.cmu.edu  |  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eli/