I myself have personally installed 7 (seven) hard drives and one CD drive
all using IDE bussing.
The only requirement is 4 individual addresses and 4 IRQ's (one for each
address)
The addresses/IRQ's that I used were:
Primary        1F0-1F7    14
Secondary    170-177    15
Tertiary        168-16F    10
Quaderary    1E8-1EF   11
The primary and secondary are predetermined on the mother board. Tertiary
was from the
Sound card and the quaderary was from a sIDE-2/CD I/O card I picked up for
$2.00 which
allowed for the second, third and fourth addresses and IRQ 10, 11, 12, 15.

Winston


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Fitzpatrick <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, October 03, 1999 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] PCBUILD Digest - 1 Oct 1999 to 2 Oct 1999 (#1999-273)


>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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