more than 2 eide hard drives

How can I install more than 2 eide drives into my computer system? I've
heard that only 2 at a time are possible. EIDE's are cheaper and since I
bought a digital camcorder I would like to store the videos on disk so I can
reuse the tapes.

"lorisarvendu" loris@anon wrote in message
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On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 16:23:39 -0400, "Algo" wrote:

How can I install more than 2 eide drives into my computer system? I've
heard that only 2 at a time are possible. EIDE's are cheaper and since I
bought a digital camcorder I would like to store the videos on disk so I
can
reuse the tapes.


Most mainboards have two IDEinterfaces, each of which can take 2 IDE
devices, so theoretically you could have 4 running.


In practice
though, you've probably got a CDrom on one channel, and you don't want
to put a hdd on the same channel, it'll run slow.

I don't believe this holds true with any of the newer systems :-)


So that's why most
people will only be able to install 2.

Quickest method is to buy an ATA controller card, fits in one of your
PCI slots and you can run another 4 drives off that card alone.
Highpoint or Promise make these cards, but then so does everyone else
now. They're about £20 in the UK or if you're in the US...well,
probably the same price in dollars.

Algo wrote:
How can I install more than 2 eide drives into my computer system?
I've heard that only 2 at a time are possible. EIDE's are cheaper
and since I bought a digital camcorder I would like to store the
videos on disk so I can reuse the tapes.

Your motherboard has two or more IDE channels, with a Master and Slave for
each. If you have 4 IDE or ATAPI devices already, you'll need an add-on PCI
controller.
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"John E. Carty" wrote in message
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In practice
though, you've probably got a CDrom on one channel, and you don't want
to put a hdd on the same channel, it'll run slow.

I don't believe this holds true with any of the newer systems :-)


Correct, each should run at its maximum allowable speed provided an 80 wire
cable is used.

Cari
www.coribright.com