Seeking, seizing the Kingdom

My friend Jon gave me a great sound card a while back, I’ve had in mind to use it for multi-track recording.  I’ve got this nice dual-core that I’ll be using for video editing, and so I might as well use it for MT recording as well.  The platinum comes with this handy front drive that sets in a 5.25″ spot, like a CD drive would.  This gives easy access to some mic/line inputs, and a headphone output, perfect for recording.  But I had one very sad problem.  I didn’t have the cable to connect this drive to the sound card.They tell you not to use an IDE cable, as it could short something out.  Upon further investigation, I found that you can use an IDE cable, but it has to be a 40 wire cable, not one of the newer 80 wire cables that are used with most DMA hard drives (higher than DMA-33).  As long as you match pin 1 on each end, the cable should work just fine.  I happened to have a cable still in the wrapping.  I used it, and now have the front panel working.  Maybe I’ll get around to that recording soon.  Cheers!

Audigy 2zs User’s Guide (Windows CHM help, yuck)
Forum post that said you can use a 40 wire IDE cable.
Pin-out for those who are really into the details.

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