firage wrote:The main part of the EISA target market probably didn't even want a sound card in the machine. The only good reason to have EISA is I/O controllers - hard drives.
I've got hard drives covered by EISA; the board has an integraded SCSI controller on this bus, alongside the NIC on EISA and VGA on VL bus, that leaves 6 32bit EISA slots free. Basically, just looking to use more of this bus, but there doesn't seem to be anything... I suppose the bus being backwards compatible made sound cards redundant.
However, I did come across datasheets referencing soundcards with EISA specs. For example, mentioned in a Crystal chipset datasheet (page 10):
"The model for this interface is the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus, but the CS4248 will easily interface to other buses such EISA and micro channel."
So, at least there was hardware engineered for it. EISA had a few years run and if any sound cards were made, they're probably long gone by now.