Hi Jeremy, on Monday, 2006-05-08 at 09:38:34, you wrote: > I don't think you need that silly cable. My understanding was that the > audio cable connected to you sound card was for when you wanted to > listen to the cd and your computer was in "low-power mode" Either way, I > have stopped installing that cable on new computers that I build and it > has always worked fine for me.
Strictly speaking you don't need it, it will work just as well via
ATAPI/SCSI. It's just so convenient that a) you have a separate volume
control for the CD input on soundcards and b) playing a CD takes nothing
more than a handful of commands (and probably one a second or so to
update the play timer), the CD-ROM does everything else on its own.
cheers!
Matthias
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