I concur with the other answers you have gotten, put the third as master
on the second channel..  I would like to point out however that there
are interesting uses for 3 identical 40G IDE drives... You might look
into an inexpensive PCI IDE-RAID card and set up a RAID0+1
configuration.  This gives you nearly double the speed of one drive, the
space of two, and redundancy should one fail.  Or if you don't care
about redundancy you can just stripe them.

Just FYI.

Thanks;

Eric


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gary Johnson
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 2:37 AM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard Drives, Three?


Hello All,

I have two 40 Gig hard drives on the primary channel IDE cable. I also
have an additional 40 Gig not being used. Could I use this one also on
the secondary cable with my cd-rw? If so, how shall I configure this? HD
as master and cd-rw as slave or vice-versa? Would I be able to burn
cd-r's using the secondary HD as download storage? TIA

Gary J.

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