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#! rnews 2136 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!xpat.postech.ac.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!ringer.cs.utsa.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!news3.noc.netcom.net!news.diamondmm.com!news From: pierce@diamondmm.com (John R Pierce) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is this Soundcard and Future Domain SCSI supported? Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 02:47:38 GMT Organization: Diamond Multimedia Systems Lines: 25 Message-ID: <31117ac8.16335919@199.182.102.2> References: <4egohe$jm@rigel.pixi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: diamond231.diamondmm.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99c/16.141 still@lost.com (Still) wrote: >I recently purchased (for the CD ROM Player) a sound card SCSI package to use >for a FreeBSD machine I wanted to put up. The Sound Card is a Smart & Friendly >Multimedia package with a Future Domain SCSI port for the SCSI CD ROM I had >hoped to at least get the CD ROM working in FreeBSD because the Future Domain >cards were supported and because the Multimedia package was cheaper than >buying a SCSI CD ROM by itself (Purchased from a Store going out of Business >so very Cheap) and I would get a SCSI card with the CD ROM. I would like to >try as much as possible to get the card to work rather than purchasing another >SCSI card to make it work. First of all I don't know what Model of Future >Domain SCSI Card it is supposed to be incorporated into the Sound card and I >don't even know if the sound portion of the card will work with the OS. I'm >not too concerned if the sound doesn't work but I'd like the SCSI CD ROM to >work. > The only sound cards I can think of that had FD scsi on them were various 'sierra semiconductor ARIA' based designs. I believe the scsi is equivalent to the low end TMC-850 (?). Its the 8bit memory mapped version, usually uses a 8k window at 0xD800:0000 or some such similar address. I'm not sure there's much software support for the ARIA outside of windows3.1. It wasn't a very sucessful design. -jrp