Talk:Sound Blaster AWE32

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[edit] IDE Interface

Does anyone know about the IDE interface on some/all of these cards? was it ever usable as an actual drive controller? I had one such card, and another SB16 from ages ago that both had IDE interfaces, and was wondering if they were ever fully functional. i never was able to get them to work. --Pandora Xero 17:27, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I remember that win95 at least detected it as "Standard IDE Controller". I dont know if it could be used with hard drives, but i used to have two cd-rom drives in my 486 connected to it, and they worked surprisingly fine considering it's ISA card after all. --88.85.144.65 09:28, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] BeOS compatability

The original non-PnP AWE32 is NOT compatable with BeOS. Be Inc. never updated their compatability info to note that. The second version Plug-n-Play AWE32 works perfectly with BeOS.

[edit] OS/2 Warp Compatibility

AWE32 cards with Vibra chipset are not compatible with later drivers from Creative Labs under OS/2 Warp. Original drivers supplied with Warp4 do work, but are missing MIDI-synthesis and WinOS/2 support. Original AWE32 and AWE64 works fine with OS/2, though.