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First post, by CravenCoyote

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Hi all!

Have been lurking here for a few months while putting together a couple of older machines - a Windows XP box and a Windows 98 box.

The Windows 98 machine I've put together has an ISA slot that I fully intend to take advantage of. I've come into possession of a strange card that I can find very little information about.
It's a CD-ROM Controller and Soundcard combo but I can't find any drivers or anything else about the card online and I'm hoping someone might be able to shed some light on it.

It's an ISA card with SONY IF-41 1-634-477-12 written on the front.
On the reverse is written SONY IF-41 FCCID: AK8CDBX10

There's a paper sticker on it that reads SONY CDB-X10

Although there are a number of chips on the card, the ones that stand out the most to me are:
Yamaha YM6064
and
Sony D65046GD037
9048EK708

Ports on the IO of the card are:

  • IN
  • OUT
  • SCSI

Here's the card as a photo I've found, but I can provide a more in depth photo of the actual card if needed.

The attachment CDBX10.png is no longer available

Is anyone able to provide me with some more information about this card? Maybe even where I might be able to find some drivers?

Thank you.

Reply 1 of 3, by Ozzuneoj

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Interesting card! Can you post some high resolution pictures of the front and back so we can identify chips and markings?

Also, if you don't mind, what part of the world are you in? Some devices are pretty much exclusive to Asian markets so are completely unheard of in the rest of the world and simply do not come up in searches because they haven't been written about in English. To me this "feels" like such a product, but it will take more research and input from others to say for sure.

Now for some blitting from the back buffer.

Reply 2 of 3, by CravenCoyote

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Sure, hopefully these help. Apologies - I'm not the best photographer!

As for location, I'm in Australia

Reply 3 of 3, by NJRoadfan

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InfoWorld mentions that Sony offered this card to run CD-XA applications. https://books.google.com/books?id=CjwEAAAAMBA … CDB-X10&f=false

I would not be surprised if it is a SCSI controller with added ADPCM digital audio output capabilities. This came out in 1990, before the SoundBlaster hit critical mass, so it kinda makes sense.