At 11/24/98 01:56 PM , Thomas S Sandborn wrote:
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>>  Thus, you cannot have more than 4 ide devices at a time(2 on each
>channel).
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>  From my experience, it's not possible to use more than 2 ide
>>channels.  I've heard rumors of an I/O card that allows up to 7 ide
>>devices,
>>but haven't seen such a thing yet.
>I wasn't aware of such a limitation. I have a Pentium classic 200, with 2
>HD on the motherboard, 1 HD on the secondary on the mobo, and a IDE CDrom
>on the soundblaster 32 IDE port. Are you saying I can't do what I'm
>doing, or that I can't put a 4th HD (as a slave on the secondary mobo
>port) and stil keep my CD arrangement?
>       TIA   Tom Sandborn

I have 2 HD's on the one motherboard channels, a tape backup and Zip drive
on the second channel and a CD drive on the sound card.  From what I
understand, 5 devices only works with the CD drive on the sound card.



Doug Simmons
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