[linux-audio-user] usb-audio compatibe ATA devices

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Fri Jun 2 12:38:43 EDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 12:32 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 12:24:15PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 07:20 +0000, c wrote:
> > > there appear to be a number of USB ATA devices, with a rj-11 plug for analog telephone network. i'm wondering if any of these are compatible with the usb-audio ALSA driver? USB would certainly be preferable to the other options which require a large wall-wart, and an ethernet hub/cables...
> > > 
> > 
> > ATA is a disk drive technology, what does it have to do with audio?
> 
> I think, but could be wrong, ATA is overloaded in phone speak scope
> where it means something like "a phone".
> 

Arrrgh, what genius decided to overload a really common acronym like
this?

Lee




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