-=> JAY EMRIE wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 JE> Wayne, considering that I can buy a DECENT current sound
 JE> card for about $20 I'd get a new one. They normally come
 JE> with the cable.

 JE> However, the wiring of the 4  connector plugs is as follows:

 JE> red -skip- black - white.       Same on both ends.

This is the second reply I've got with that pinout but does not apply here.
White and blank connection, second ground, left channel audio are swapped
here beteen CD drive and Sound card. Seems my problem was more a problem 
of failing eyesight than electronics. Once brought to my attention I broke
out the magnifier and a trouble lamp, saw the markings stamped on the back
of the drive and all became clear. As to snagging a new sound card that is
unneccesary as I've already got a PCI Turtle Beach sound card in the
machine but lack Win 3.1 drivers for it.
Moving to Win 95 on the new drive where that card should work just fine.

 WC>I require some help or suggestions with a problem here.
 WC>I recently lost my old computer and swapped the
 WC>ISA proprietey SoundBlaster card into which a
 WC>Creative or Panasonic drive plugged directly into the Sound card.
 WC>Now I'm running a new CD-ROM drive on IDE 1 and I noted
 WC>the analog audio cables do not match.
 WC>These are both female connectors I'm speaking of.
 WC>The old cable for the Creative CD-ROM drive is wired
 WC>blank, white, black, red with red to the side of the drive
 WC>while the new CD-ROM's cable goes into the drive as
 WC>white, blank, black, red
 WC>Same order but the blank is in a different place on each plug
 WC>and the pins do not match.
 WC>Any opionions as to what success or disaster I might
 WC>face were I to cut off the connector from the PCI sound card
 WC>and wire it to the end of the cable coming from the sound card
 WC>soldering the salvaged connector and correcting the wiring order?
 WC>Sound card works everywhere but with the CD due to the lack of
 WC>that connection and I want to play audio CD's too.
 WC>I want to get audio off the new 40X drive but not let the smoke
 WC>out of anything.
 WC>The PCI soundcard is Turtle Beach which I've heard of but
 WC>lack software for so I'm looking for a workaround
 WC>with the cable for the Sound card I _do_ have
 WC>software for, opinions?

 WC>--- MultiMail/PBellDOS v0.42
 WC>/120)

 JE> ---


-+- MultiMail/PBellDOS v0.42

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-4