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wanting to hook up 3 hard drives IDE??
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jruppert
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17. November 2004 @ 10:12 |
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I have 2 installed now using the IDE cables. I want to hook up another. Can this be done? I am not finding any IDE cables that support 3 devices.
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ddp
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17. November 2004 @ 11:27 |
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you can only run on standard motherboards 4 ide drives such as hd, cd/dvdrom, cdrw/dvdrw drives & 2 ide dives per cable with 2 ide connectors on motherboard but there are boards that have 4 ide connectors on motherboard
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Prisoner
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17. November 2004 @ 12:51 |
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You can also look into Raid setups.
I have with an old Compaq Pentium 200 run three hard drives with on cable. You need a good junk store that sells mainframe cables with up to five or six IDE ports on it. I got mine for about $5, but I think I only got the three hard drive to reconize in Red hat 7.2, I don`t think I tried windows on it. that work as I could set the drives.
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Praetor
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17. November 2004 @ 18:40 |
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Some boxed drives come with IDE controllers (noticeably Maxtor drives 80GB and bigger, well they used to) ... if youre not into RAIDing then that might save you some money
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oquela
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17. November 2004 @ 19:09 |
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you can also:
a)get an external box that has a firewire and/or USB2 IDE bridge (I have one. works great, plus it's portable)
b) get an internal IDE/firewire bridge. You install your HD inside the case, and this small device connects to where the IDE cable goes. then you connect to an INTERNAL firewire port using a regular firewire cable. You can add two devices in total to this bridge, so it's your HD plus one more. this is about 50 bucks.
c) get a motherboard that supports 4 ide channels instead of 2
d) get a PCI card that adds 2 more IDE channels (for a total of 4 more devices)
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Prisoner
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19. November 2004 @ 12:17 |
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Hey Praetor I haven`t seen you in long time.
How do you have your three 160Gb drives set up? I now don't have my pentum set up that way. I have it on a 10Gb with Windows 98 and use an external 250Gb drive as a floater.
Jruppert, why do you want 3 drives? what are there sizes? you may find it just slows down you system if small or only a 4200rpm.
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Streamcod
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19. November 2004 @ 16:14 |
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well , get IDE add on card you can link 4 hdd using this card,seprate than master/slave IDE
make sure u have enough DC connector for the hdds (i like this dees)
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DogBomb
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26. November 2004 @ 11:59 |
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You need a hard drive "controller card" that fits into a PCI slot on your PC (just like a sound card). Western Digital's "Special Edition" used to include these for free with their drives, so you can either look for one of these drives or buy one from Newegg.
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