<snip> > Thus, you cannot have more than 4 ide devices at a time(2 on each channel). <snip> 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 ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcbuild.html