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hahe
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How does having more than 2 hard drives work? Do they all connect or do I need an extra IDE port on my motherboard open? I think I only have two and one is taken up by my two hard drives and the other by my two cd/dvd drives.
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Saner
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Aug 2005 09:29 Post subject: |
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you can have either 4 hard disks or 3 hard disks and a cdrom / dvd of a normal motherboard IDE system.
You can set a hard disk to master and slave so.
IDE1 ---- Master - HDD1
Slave - HDD2
IDE2 Master - HDD3
Slave - CD/DVD
If you want mor eon a IDE system you will have to purchase a IDE controller.
You could also upgrade to scsi, and that will allow you to have more devices ... but that can proove pricey.
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I saw things like that in here and in other "woman problems" topics so...... Am I the only one that thinks some authorities needs to be alerted about Saner and him possibly being a rapist and/or kidnapper ? |
Saner is not being serious. Unless its the subject of Santa!
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Aug 2005 09:58 Post subject: |
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Make sure to buy a SATA Controller and no PATA !
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hahe
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Aug 2005 12:36 Post subject: |
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| |nSaNe wrote: | you can have either 4 hard disks or 3 hard disks and a cdrom / dvd of a normal motherboard IDE system.
You can set a hard disk to master and slave so.
IDE1 ---- Master - HDD1
Slave - HDD2
IDE2 Master - HDD3
Slave - CD/DVD
If you want mor eon a IDE system you will have to purchase a IDE controller.
You could also upgrade to scsi, and that will allow you to have more devices ... but that can proove pricey. |
he's right.
that is also how my current setup looks like. |
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Mutantius
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Aug 2005 12:38 Post subject: |
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So when im conencting the 4th HDD to my server then I have to disable the CD Drive?
"Why don't you zip it, Zipfero?" - fraich3
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[sYn]
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Aug 2005 14:03 Post subject: |
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I currently have..
40gb IDE Master
40gb IDE Slave
120gb IDE Master
CDR IDE Slave
300gb SATA
300gb SATA
and Im soon to add another 2 sata and replace the 40's for 400's.. You need to buy a new PCI IDE/SATA controller!
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Aug 2005 21:37 Post subject: |
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you need this for hdd <128gb
or this for hdd >128gb
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| Posted: Sat, 13th Aug 2005 21:41 Post subject: |
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no he doesn't. Take a look at his board, it has 4 SATA connectors!
Last edited by whoKnows on Sat, 13th Aug 2005 21:51; edited 1 time in total
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