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On 3 Oct 99, at 23:00, Avnish Kashyap wrote:
> Dave Fitzpatrick wrote:
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> > This is probably a stupid question but here goes anyway. I have two hard
> > drives in my machine plus a cd-rom drive and a cdrw drive. I have space to
> > add an internal zip or jaz drive. Can I have any more IDE devices or do I
> > have to get a SCSI drive and, presumably, install a SCSI card, something I
> > am not particularly confident about.
> >
> > Dave Fitzpatrick
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> You can use maximum of 4 IDE devices. Any device over will have to
> use SCSI or USB.
Actually, you can have two devices per channel. Most current
motherboards offer two EIDE channels, for a total of four devices.
But you could add a sound card (say) with an EIDE channel, and so get
up to six devices. [Since each channel needs its own IRQ, adding
channels may not be your first choice. But it *is* an option.
David G
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