2 CD Drives 1 Sound

[jublee]

Hi,

Just a quick question that's been bugging me for a few weeks, i have 2 cd drives drive d & drive e, i have a soundblaster awe 64 gold soundcard with a black slot and a white slot.

When i plug each of the drives 1 into the white slot and 1 into the black i get no sound if i was to take 1 out i get sound, is there a way i can get sound from both drives?

Thanks

[Sixpac_XP]

If you splice the two outs from the cdrom drives I think you can but one of the connections is for digital input I do believe.

[bailey]

you do not need the audio cable anymore, the sound is directed to the proper place by the data cable.

[[Neo770]]

You have to make sure that digital audio extraction is set in your drive properties for that to work though.

[bailey]

Originally posted by [Neo770]
You have to make sure that digital audio extraction is set in your drive properties for that to work though.

negitive, you don't have to set anything at all.
well maybe its a windows thing xp you don't need to do anything.

what the heck try it your self to see.
if it works, fine
if it don't then get the cable with two ends.

[[Neo770]]

Are you sure, maybe in WinXP that little box is always ticked by default. But i'm pretty darn sure its not the default in Windows 2000.

[bailey]

all I can say for sure is the fact that I have 4 optical drives, and only one of them are using a audio cable connected to the sound card, the other three have nothing connected and all 4 drives work great, the audio data is passed through the data ribbin cable.
and I have not made any special setting in anything with the cd drives or sound card.

[jublee]

Originally posted by bailey
all I can say for sure is the fact that I have 4 optical drives, and only one of them are using a audio cable connected to the sound card, the other three have nothing connected and all 4 drives work great, the audio data is passed through the data ribbin cable.
and I have not made any special setting in anything with the cd drives or sound card.

That's strange, i have my D drive set up as (damn cant remember think it's Cable select)

I have my E drive set up as slave running of the same cable but the D drive has no sound

[bailey]

ok, then it must be a motherboard and bios thing, I do know for a fact that all the builds I have done that have more than one optical drive works this same way.
I built 30 systems new yesterday and did not use the cable on the drive, and the onboard sound works great on all of them