Yes, seems you are right. It was something I did not know, sound can be
played from the IDE directly to the soundcard:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue80/tag/4.html
Seems there is also something to do with scsi emulation, but that's
outside of my limited knowledge.
raffaele
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Raffaele Belardi wrote:
Audio CD contain digital (not analog) audio. To listen to it somebody
needs to convert those digital samples into an analog stream. This can
be done by the PC soundcard or by the CD-reader itself.
In the latter case, the analog stream converted by the cd-reader is
