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Way to easily distinguish Panasonic, Mitsumi, and IDE connectors?

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First post, by Tenorman

Posted on 2018-07-31, 20:11

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Hello All,

Is there an easy way to visually tell the Panasonic, Mitsumi, and IDE interfaces apart on a sound card? Sony and SCSI instances are easy because they different numbers of pins.

Case in point: I've been messing with this Gateway OEM Jazz 16 card. There are no labels besides "CD ROM Controller". I can tell the smaller connector is Sony, and I can make an assumption that this card is too old to have an IDE interface, but can we visually tell somehow? Perhaps from support chips?

Thanks.

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Reply 1 of 3, by Anonymous Coward

Posted on 2018-08-01, 07:26

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Your card appears to be from 1993. ATAPI drives weren't really a thing until 1995 (if I recall correctly). Therefore, I would guess it should be Mitsumi or Matsushita.

Based on this post, I would lean towards Mitsumi. BTW, your card was apparently built by Cardinal.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/16mv … 98/YYRgFcO-JrQJ

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Reply 2 of 3, by Tiido

Posted on 2018-08-01, 12:46

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Photo of other side of the card would settle it. IDE has certain pins as ground in the middle but some others have whole row as grounds.

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Reply 3 of 3, by Tenorman

Posted on 2018-08-02, 00:45

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Anonymous Coward wrote:

Based on this post, I would lean towards Mitsumi. BTW, your card was apparently built by Cardinal.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/16mv … 98/YYRgFcO-JrQJ

Thanks for digging that up. There isn't a lot online specifically about the 16MVCARD and I hadn't seen this yet.

I had noticed the Cardinal chip on the board.

As an FYI - The card seems to work just fine using the Jazz16 drivers at http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=418. I am not seeing any Gateway branding in this driver pack, but the drivers install to C:\G2KAUDIO by default and Sony and Mitsumi CD-ROM drivers are included, so I'm pretty sure that these are "official" drivers for the card.

I'll post some recordings when I'm done. I still need to test out the wavetable header.

Tiido wrote:
Photo of other side of the card would settle it. IDE has certain pins as ground in the middle but some others have whole row as grounds.

It's sounding like you can tell the difference between IDE and the other two by looking at the back of the card, but there isn't really a good way to tell between Panasonic and Mitsumi without researching.

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