I have four IDE drives currently installed in my computer, A CD-RW drive,
DVD-ROM drive, and two 160GB Hard Drives (controlled by an ATA controller
card). The fact that I have controller card theoretically gives me the
ability to attach 8 IDE drives to my computer. However I'm hesitant to due to
addressing... will I run into addressing issues and conflicts if I try to add
drives beyond the four already installed?

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> I have four IDE drives currently installed in my computer, A CD-RW
> drive, DVD-ROM drive, and two 160GB Hard Drives (controlled by an ATA
> controller card). The fact that I have controller card theoretically
> gives me the ability to attach 8 IDE drives to my computer. However
> I'm hesitant to due to addressing... will I run into addressing issues
> and conflicts if I try to add drives beyond the four already
> installed?
>

You should not have any problems adding IDE drives. Modern computers
with ACPI BIOS running Windows 2000 or higher are very good at figuring
out and sharing resources. I have seen systems with 12 IDE drives and
lots of additional hardware without problems. I currently have 5 drives
in one system and 7 in another.

Leonard Severt

Microsoft Enterprise Support

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