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On Sun, 9 May 2004 06:24:54 -0400, "HH" wrote:
Uh, an IDE card will not allow 3 drives on a cable any more than your onboard IDE controller will, so in actuality, it is not an answer either. Also, many PCs and their OSs react strangely to any more than 4 IDE devices total. Not quite. With a second IDE card, you could add 4 more devices. I've done this before with Win 3.1 and a pile of 120MB hard drives. As long as the correct drivers are used, no odd behavior should happen. It's not common though as for most people, 2 ports and 4 drives are usually enough. The only possible issues with multiple IDE cards is the boot order. Onboard IDE generally have boot drives only but if there's no onboard IDE or if it's been disabled and you have 2 or more IDE cards, figuring which card get sthe boot priority would require a bit of trial and error. Dale was politely making a good point. Yes he was. There is simply no way to get 3 or more IDE devices on the same IDE port. The OP was being a jerk for insisting the impossible was possible without closely checking for what it really was. (SCSI? Or 2 separate cables held together so it appears as one cable?) -- To reply, replace digi.mon with tds.net |
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