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From: dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Flaky Soundblaster
Message-ID: <5870030@pollux.svale.hp.com>
Date: 30 Jan 91 22:18:51 GMT
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>(Brad Hines) 
>Is this a known problem with the Soundblaster's Adlib emulation?  Or is it
>something else?  Ideas, anyone?

I encounter a similar problem with Secret of the Silver Blades. SSI
eventually discovered this was a feature. Apparently when you have a
disk access going on at the same time you are pumping data to the
sound card, there is a DMA conflict that may or may not be handled
properly depending on your hardware.

			   Danny Low
    "Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
	   Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
	     HP CPCD   dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com