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Mary your right, the Ultra 33 will take 14 and 15, and the Ultra 66 takes 11,
don't know if it needs another since I never installed another drive on the 66
controller but logic would say it does use antoher one.
HTH,
Jose
Mary Wolden wrote:
> I was thinking about buying the Abit BE6 motherboard but was concerned about
> how many IRQ's it would use if you have 4 controllers enabled. Wouldn't it
> use 4 IRQ's? Each IRQ on my current motherboards only support two IDE
> channels, primary and secondary, not 4 as you have stated. On the
> motherboards I have used you have a primary and secondary controller, each
> supporting a master and slave ide device, and that requires 2 IRQ's, so if
> you have an ultra66 primary and secondary controller with a master and slave
> on each controller, and an ultra 33 primary and secondary controller with a
> master and slave on each controller, wouldn't you need 4 free IRQ's to be
> able to enable all of the controllers. Is this how it is working on your
> Abit BP6 motherboard?
>
> Mary Wolden
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