PCI IDE Controller Card

[crazychicken]

If i install one of these, will i see all 8 drives in my bios?

how does that work? they don't take over the onboard channels do they?

please explain

also, i am only running a 50x cdrom on the card, will ATA33 card be enough? or will i see a difference if i get an ATA66 card?



thanks alot

david

 

[sMashPiranha]

Yeah, IDE controller cards are cool, you can run 8 ide devices when you stick one in your PC. No point getting an ATA-33 card when you can get ATA-100 for not much more, that way you can stick a few hard drives etc. on it. I run all my hard drives on seperate channels thanks to my IDE controller, which really speeds up drive to drive copying.

 

[crazychicken]

can you see all the drives (including the ones on the controller) in the BIOS? i am just curious as to how you see them.

 

[crazychicken]

forgot to bump

 

[Budman]

<< can you see all the drives (including the ones on the controller) in the BIOS? >>



No you cant see it in your motherboard bios,but the card has it's own bios & you can see them in there.

 

[NurseRN]

Promise Technologies is the best choice for Ultra IDE controllers. They're priced right and they're virtually easy to install (even Win XP seems to enjoy them!).

Nurse

PS: BuyComp They ship fast and also have good prices.

 

[Priit]

Generally, UDMA/33 is enough for CD-ROM's, most of them are equipped with UDMA/33 or PIO Mode 4 interface anyway. But there are no point getting extra UDMA/33 card: get UDMA/100 or 133 instead (even better if it's also with RAID option). I would suggest Promise controllers, too. Extra IDE card acts just like SCSI one: you can't see it from BIOS, but it loads it's own BIOS during boot where drives are listed.

 

[boyRacer]

You won't see a difference if you put a cd-rom in an ata66 instead of a 33... unless you have a pioneer 16x dvd which actually runs at ata66... but then again the differences between ata66 and 33 is not even noticeable.