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["Samual Acorn" <sam.acorn AT gmail.com>]

....as far as AWE32 problems go i cant help you anymore... ive taken
the AWE out of my system and put the SB16 back in.... why? for some
odd reason that awe card gives my computer a serious case of the
hiccups (spontaneous reboots) and random problems with the second ide
controller not liking certain cdrom drives.... my gut thinks that
because there is no jumper to disable the panasonic/mitsumi/sony cdrom
connectors (like there is on the sb16) that thats where my secondary
ide weirdnesses are coming from (if i enable, say, the panasonic
interface on the sb16 card im using now the second ide quits working
all together or works -very- strangely)... for all i know the awe
might have all 3 (sony mitsumi and panasonic) enabled with no way of
disabling them...

as far as the random reboots... well... im not sure if its the
physical damage the card endured in the shop i bought it at (none of
the traces look broken but that doesnt rule out any ESD damage) or
again.. an unseen conflict with the second ide...

but with the awe i cant get my system to run for more than 2 days (and
thats pushing it) and im tired of seeing fsck fix my harddrives (who
knows what data im loosing) but the sb16 will let me run this system
for months on end (or until the power company hiccups)

and since 99.9% of what i listen to goes to the DAC anyway
(ogg/mp3/xm/it/s3m/mod) and with timidity installed (using the same
soundfont i was loading into the awe) i dont need the awe....

interesting to note tho... without the awe the only midi device i have
to choose from when using '-e' with playmidi is the external port ;)
... might want to hunt down some old hardware jumpered sb16 cards...
might make life a little easier... the cards built in volume slider
comes in quite handy at times too... (its where the line out jack is
on awe cards)

also interesting to note; with the sb16 i dont hear the noise of the
data flowing over the network like i could with the awe... (conflict?
card damage? at this point i dont care anymore... i dont have to hear
it)

sorry about rambling on... im half asleep right now... ...that and
excited my system works normally again... i like my sb16... *g*

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