On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 17:39:27 +0200, "Leszek Gasiorek" <leszek@...> wrote: > >Anyone using the Abit BE6 or ASUS P3B-F motherboards >succesfully with Logic? I was on the point of ordering the BE6, >but came across loads of discussion groups mentioning >problems with IRQ conflicts and IDE device recognition. > We just built a workstation with ABIT BE6, and so far it looks like a very nice motherboard. However, the supplied HighPoint UDMA/66 drivers were v1.0, and they didn't work AT ALL! We had a brand new 13 GB Seagate drive hooked to the UDMA/66 connector of the motherboard, and the measured transfer rate was below 1 MB/s !! (guaranteed to cause "CPU too slow" errors). So, we figured out that the UDMA/66 drivers were totally broken, and downloaded new drivers (v.1.11) from: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/ After installing the new drivers the transfer rates increased to over 10 MB/s ! It was quite strange that there was no sign of the new drivers at ABIT's website and not even a link to HighPoint's site. As quite a few other motherboard manufacturers are using the same UDMA/66 controller chips, I wonder how many of us are getting errors because of the same reason.... >Am I right in thinking that a card such as DSP Factory or >AW2/AW8 is a recording card only, not a *sound* card, >therefore in order to be able to play CDs and use soft-synths, >you need a 'normal' sound card in addition to the recording >card? If so, I'm looking for a simple but reliable sound card >that would do the job, any recommendations? >(Please don't say SBLive). Why not? It works perfectly fine, and there's no cheaper sampler substitute around.... :-) -- Affe - http://www.vip.fi/~affe/ ICQ#31380046