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hrnjad@lts.sel.alcatel.de (Muharem Hrnjadovic KS/EIE5 60/1/26 #45686)
wrote:

This might seem a bit silly, but is the "red book" audio cable
connected between the CD-ROM and your sound card?  Your system would
be able to play wave files OK, but not audio tracks found on music
CD's if the connection were missing.

Hope this helps!

>I built a system with
>
>	* an ASUS PVI486SP3 motherboard
>	* a NCR810-based SCSI-PCI host adapter (SDMS rel. 3.0x)
>    * SANYO 254S SCSI-2, Quad-Speed CD-ROM drive
>	* IBM DPES31080 1,08GB SCSI hard drive
>	* a 16-bit sound card (Mozart)
>	* an ATI XPRESSION mach64 2MB DRAM, PCI
>
>everything works nice so far with one minor problem: the sound card
>and the SCSI HA don't cooperate.
>
>A (Windows 3.1) application for playing audio-CDs came with the soundcard's
>drivers ("Audio-Rack") but I wasn't able to make it work.
>
>When I insert an audio-CD and start "Audio-Rack" it comes up, I see the
>HD-LED (indicating activity on the SCSI bus) burning but I can only hear
>the HD being accessed for some reason, the CD-ROM LED does not get lit.
>If I leave it that way "Audio-Rack" goes on and on trying to access the
>CD-ROM endlessly...
>
>The sound card works otherwise, I can play audio clips and there are
>no boot messages pointing to an error, the system runs nice and very
>stable.
>
>Any tips, clues what's going wrong here?
>
>Best regards,
>
>-- 
>Muharem Hrnjadovic (hrnjad@lts.sel.alcatel.de)
>Alcatel SEL AG, Lorenzstr. 10, D-70435 Stuttgart
>Tel. (+49 711) 821-45686

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