Re: Updated PSS sound card CDROM port enabler plus SoundBlaster Emulation

Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch)
Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:38:53 +0200


Anthony Barbachan wrote:

> >Still, we gain yet another config option that does not give us anything
> >new.
> >Note that SB emulation/WSS are exclusive. By using SB emulation
> >while WSS is going on, you make WSS unaccessible underneath the WSS
> >driver,
> >which is not good.
>
> Are you sure about this? The original DOS drivers enabled all of the

Yes. The WSS codec can either be accessed via the ISA interface,
or via the DSP busses. The DSP is responsible for switching, thus
if it sees an SB command to emulate, it switches the codec to its
own bus and makes it unaccessible from ISA.

> features present on the PSS card. Thus when configured under a DOS or

AFAIR not by default, but the configurator had a lot of command
line switches (at least the one that came with a Cardinal DSP16).

> What about the access to the CDROM port, previously disabled.

This is a valid option and should be included.

Tom

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