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I had a PAS-16-SCSI (pro audio spectrum 16). What was the intersection there - between sound cards and SCSI interfaces ? I was very happy to have it and actua

by rsync 4y ago

I had a PAS-16-SCSI (pro audio spectrum 16). What was the intersection there - between sound cards and SCSI interfaces ? I was very happy to have it and actually made it work with external SCSI (apple!) peripherals but, looking back, why did this combination make sense ? Why did these exist ?

lmz 4y ago
I believe the answer is "CD-ROM drives" but the SCSI ones were a bit before my time.
- hakfoo 4y ago
  Definitely. There were other flavours of PAS26. I had one which accepted the weird Philips/LMSI interface which supported a specific 1X drive (CM 205) that didn't work on mainline Linux without a patch that didn't really make it past the 1.3 kernel series. By putting the interface on the sound card, they could sell you a "multimedia in one box" kit without dealing with too many footguns of compatibility. Eventually, by the late 486/Pentium era, most newer machines had two ATA/IDE channels and you could more or less sell basre drives and expect people could support them without too much hassle.