More than four IDE devices?
hi all...
does anyone know how I can run more than 4 IDE devices on my machine? I currently have 2 hard discs, which both don't support RAID (my mainboard does, so there is also IDE3 and IDE4 slots on it...). Whenever I try to put my DVD Burner on IDE 3 or 4 it won't recognise it... The problem is that on IDE 2 I have my DVD Reading Drive and my CD Burner... Anyone knows how to solve this? |
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hi friend Jellygoose... :) more than 4?.....yes,i use 5. 8O is hard to explain(my poor english),but i try: IDE 1 one maxtor 60gb 7200rpm - master one maxtor 40gb - slave. this two hard drives are fixed(internal). IDE 2 : 1 LG dvd player - master 1 cdr-w (acer 24x10x40) - slave i put one key to on-off the power of this two players(+12v and +5v) and another hd fujitsu 10gb in a removable box(*) in IDE 2 (slave or master,don't mather) (*)removable box = with the hd under one compartment(my poor english) and the cable in IDE 2 with this 3 devices seems like: X1-----------------------X2-------------X3-------------X4 (this is the "cable") X1 = motherboard ( IDE 2 ) X2 = LG dvd player X3 = hd fujitsu x4 = cdr-w very important: when i put the box on the pc,i turn off the dvd player and the cdr-w confused? :? but works...and you can put another one device with another removable box. ( and you get 6 !) 8O ps: you turn on the players only when you want to use them. if you don't need to use the players,power off them and free power,temperature,etc. and with this configuration the 2 players are bootable at the same time too! 8) eletronic is cool! editing: now is correct! very important: ever turn off the pc when in or out the removable box and/or turn on-off the players.!!! |
wow jorel thanks! :lol:
now i'm a little bit confused... listen: I have my 2 hard disks both on IDE1, and my CD Burner + DVD Reader on IDE2 ( master and slave... ) now in my BIOS, I can only see 4 devices ( 2 from IDE1 and 2 from IDE2)... I don't even know how to activate my 3rd and 4th IDE Slot... sorry for being a pain in the rear buddy :) |
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my mistake! 8O in ide 1 = 2 devices in ide 2 = 2 devices (3 in my case) i go to edit and correct my last post now! :wink: |
Suggestions: Get a USB 2.0 card and now you can have 4 devices ( 2 on each IDE channel ) and 4 or 5 external USB 2.0 hard drives. USB 2.0 is 480Mbps, faster than FireWire (400Mbps ).
I currently have: Drive C: 60GB IDE HDD Drive D: IDE CD-R/RW Writer Plextor 12/10/32A Drive E: IDE DVD-RAM/DVD-R Reader/Writer Drive F: 18GB Cheetah Wide SCSI 10,000RPM HDD Drive J: External USB 2.0 40GB (Generic enclosure with a Samsung IDE HDD drive) Drive K: External USB 2.0 60GB Maxtor IDE HDD Drive L: External USB 2.0 120GB Maxtor IDE HDD And I still have some USB 2.0 slots available :wink: -kwag |
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hay all.
how about me. I haven't installed me CenDyne (DVR-105) as of yet. I'm happy I finally went out and splurged (long story that I'll spare you for now, on) I was gonna do this over the weekend, but I got tied up w/ my Delphi endeavors and a couple of PC issues that came up as well. I have BJ's 5pk @ $13.99 DVDRW's for starters so I can test this baby. And, no, I'm not giving up on my CDR's either - - just expanding my options, that's all.. oh, and looking to the future. My main pc here is: * 20g * 30g * CDRW * DVD-ROM (pionear 10x or less) My 2nd pc is: * 60g ( partitioned as: C: 900mb D: 2g E: 54g ) * CDRW I haven't decided on which PC to hook, and start my DVD happy burning yeah. But, i'm confused, cause I like using my main pc for most quick things, but my 2nd pc is pretty empty though, but that I would have to get up (or turn around in my chair) and tend to it. I don't know. Then, I have to know if I can burn DVDR/RW undre Windows 98 (not SE) I'm not looking to author up the hill, but I would like to see this baby out in any case. I don't feel like buy XP or anyother for that matter either. So, I'm not sure if I'll have problems yet w/ software under W98. Any advise, would be welcomed guys. Thanks a bunch. -vhelp |
Hi vhelp,
My advice: Get rid of 98 as fast as you can :D It's a HUGE stability difference from Win98 to WinXP. My machine is up for days, and not hours, as it was the case with 98 :x ( daily crashes and restarts ) :wink: -kwag |
kinda funny
USB 2.0 is faster than firewire, though only on paper I think. Everytime I see a device (like a ext hard drive) reviewed in Comp. shopper or PC magazine that has both interfaces, it preforms faster using the firewire interface.... Just my 2 cents... |
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I haven't done any benchmarks, but people have told me lately that doing benchmarks, FireWire kicks USB-2.0 butt :lol: Not to mention that FireWire 800 just came out 8O -kwag |
Just wanned to add:
you can also purchase an add-in IDE card, with or without RAID. Then you can have another 4 more! :!: Won |
Your hard discs don't have to be "RAID compatible". Any IDE disc should work. Have you tried plugging one of your HD's into IDE3 or 4 on the motherboard?
My current setup: IDE1 (mobo) - Master: "Old" Seagate 10Gb disk, boot drive and a bit slow with it ;) Slave: OLD Ricoh 6x4x24x CDR/W (still useful for stuff; not picked up by new ATA card) Both on a standard crappy IDE cable because they're not storming. IDE2 (mobo) - disabled to free up an IRQ IDE3 (new ATA card) - Master: Middle aged :) 40gb Seagate Slave: New LG DVD/CDRW combo drive, barely picked up by card. Maybe the reason for everything being slow... but nowhere else to put it. Both connected on a ATA133 80 wire cable. IDE4 (new ATA card, smartly sharing IRQ with IDE3) - Master: Spanking new 180gb IBM drive, running far too slow despite an ATA133 card and cable :roll: Slave: nothing.. to try and keep bandwidth up to its current meagre level. (and power usage down, only got a 300w) So that's five drives, all running off IDE, none of them specifically RAID, in a standard PC, with room for one more (hmm, resurrect the internal Zip100?) Didn't take much messing to get working either, though you do need some bare technical/system building and BIOS configure knowledge. Once the motherboard IDE2 was disabled, the windows drivers were installed, and everything was connected with *functioning* cables ( :evil: ) it was a doddle and all auto-detected. And to think I only bought it to get a full 180gb capacity. Sweet. |
Get a scsi card as well and a sub station in the back garden to par everything!
I'm still a big fan of SCSI devices, just chain them up and away you go. Cheers, |
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WOW!!!! 8O No wonder my lights dim out at night!!! Somebody running a 300GB drive to encode KVCD in my neighborhood :lol: Oops, I believe that's me :roll: -bp |
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