Food for thought-----> 3 on a channel? IDE?

Verygreedy

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I think I would like some cheddar wurst. Sounds good. Oh and .. Anyone know if you can put 3 drives on a single channel without any problems? IDE.. channel 1 is my 2 HDs and secondary is CDR and my 40x CD Rom.. can I add a DVD without problem? Just set to cable select? man.. 2am already..
 

Passions

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If you cut ur ide cable in half and splice it correctly you can put 3 devices on one channel.
 

ROJAS

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If you have ata66 capability on your hard drive, buy a Promise ultra 100 or 66 ide card. You can run your hard drive in ata66 compatible speed. You can then free up an additional ide on your motherboard's
IRQ 14 or 15, depending where your hard drive was originally connected.

My current setup: Promise Ultra 66 card: has 1 cdrom, 1 cdrom writer,
and a ide zip drive. My motherboard was ata 66 capable, so I choose to leave my harddrive connected to the ide off the motherboard.

You could buy a Promise ata33 and connect the cdroms,zip on it, but the price difference from ata33 and ata66 is a few dollars.

P.s. My cdroms, zip drive are only ata33 capable.
 

Smbu

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If you want to use more IDE just get a pci IDE controller card like others have mentioned above.
 

dingdongdingdong

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yeah you should get an ide controler card cos i have Abit KT7A-RAID and a maxtor ultra ATA 100 controller on my mobo. and I run it with ten hardrive now 4IBM 45gig 7200rpm and 6 81gig maxtor 5400rpm and my cpu over clock 1gig@1.4 and running without a problem. i think you should try it;)
 

Verygreedy

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How about this?


I put the ata33 HD on a new controller card then;

Put my 7200 RPM GXP 46.1 GB ATA100
buy another cheaper ATA 100 HD and set up a raid.. That would be nice!!

HOW DO YOU SET UP A RAID? THE AZ11-E I have as my mainboard supports that I believe..

ANy help?