Second CD Drive.

[vbMax]

I am adding a second CD drive to a PC. Can I have both
drives hooked up to one soundcard? Is there a "splitter"
cable available to share the same soundcard and if so,
where can I purchase one?

Thanks in advance!

 

[stuartd]

Most sound cards have more than 1 connection (labeled AUX or something).

 

[paparazi]

Yes you are correct! you should have an Auxillary input connector on the card as well as the CD connector, use a second audio fly lead for the second drive and use the AUX connection. Martin

 

[JohnS9051]

You can get exactly what you asked for here:

http://www.cablesnmor.com/dual-cdrom-audio-cable.html

Hope this helps. Good luck.

John

 

[ramani]

Hi vbMax

If you set the digital audio set for the scond cd drive, there is no need for any cables.
o enable Digital Audio, select the CDDRIVE in control panel system propeeties and look for the property DIGITAL SOUND which is not chosen by default. If you choose this, the sound cale is no longer required.
ramani :-9
(Subramanian.G),FoxAcc, ramani_g@yahoo.com

 

[JohnS9051]

This is good advice from ramani, although it doesn't work with all CD-ROM drives and CD-ROM drivers.

It doesn't work with the default driver loaded by Win98 (Microsoft 05-11-1998).

In Win98, you can enable this feature under Start-Settings-Control Panel-Multimedia-CD Music tab.

If the Digital Audio feature is greyed out then the feature is not supported by your CD-ROM drive or CD-ROM driver. If you can update your CD-ROM driver, you may be able to get this feature to work as long as it is supported by your CD-ROM drive.

If your CD-ROM drive supports this feature then it is supported by the default driver under Win2000/XP.

This works by converting the CD-Audio signal from analog to digital and sending it through the sound card.

CD-Audio analog signals do not require a sound card. The connection is just a pass-through to the speakers.
It may effect the headphone out connection on the front of your CD-ROM, since that is analog, but I'm not sure about that.

Hope this helps. Good luck.

John