CompuServe Messages

I don't claim to be an expert David, but I can tell you what has worked for me.. I am using a PAS 16 board as just a sound board, and have a separate SCSI host adapter running my CD-ROM and hard and floppy drives. I am happy leaving the SCSI support to a dedicated board, and the sound to the PAS, kind of keeping everybody in their specialty. I haven't even bothered with an internal cable, I just ran a 1/8 inch stereo cable from the headphone out on the CD-ROM to the audio in on the PAS, for the few CD-ROM's that use RedBook sound, and audio CD's. I'm not real well informed on the 16 vs 8 bit sound differences, one of the younger members of the family is the main user of the sound board, but he feels the 16 bit board is well worth the difference in price. True 44Khz sampling, 22 FM Voices, and a lot of other stuff I don't understand..Then again, I paid for it, so *of course* it is worth the price to him <g>. Just to complicate things, if I had an IDE hard drive already, I'd probably use the sound card to operate the CD-ROM rather than investing in a third card. Clear as mud, huh??? -Bill