Hi

I am using a Pentium 4 2.0 GHz.
I have a primary disk of 20 GB and a slave of 80 GB. Is it possible
for me to install a 3rd hard disk of 80 GB? I do not have any free
slots on my data cable.
Will windows / linux recognize the 3rd hard disk or will it simply
ignore it?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Siddharth Jain

install an IDE PCI card then you can have 4 more.

On 3 Feb 2005 12:07:41 -0800, (E-Mail Removed)
(siddharth jain) wrote:

| Hi
|
| I am using a Pentium 4 2.0 GHz.
| I have a primary disk of 20 GB and a slave of 80 GB. Is it possible
| for me to install a 3rd hard disk of 80 GB? I do not have any free
| slots on my data cable.
| Will windows / linux recognize the 3rd hard disk or will it simply
| ignore it?

Don't you have a secondary IDE connector on your motherboard? If
that's already full with CD or DVD drives or whatever, and if your
motherboard doesn't support SATA, you'll need to buy a PCI IDE card as
somebody already suggested.

Larc



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Each IDE controller channel can only run up to TWO drives.

--
DaveW



"siddharth jain" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi
>
> I am using a Pentium 4 2.0 GHz.
> I have a primary disk of 20 GB and a slave of 80 GB. Is it possible
> for me to install a 3rd hard disk of 80 GB? I do not have any free
> slots on my data cable.
> Will windows / linux recognize the 3rd hard disk or will it simply
> ignore it?
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Siddharth Jain

DaveW wrote:

> Each IDE controller channel can only run up to TWO drives.
>
2 IDE channels with 2 drives each. Plus SATA drives, at least 2.

DaveW wrote:

> Each IDE controller channel can only run up to TWO drives.

I've heard that it's not a good idea to put an optical disc drive and a
hard drive on the same channel. Is that needless anxiety?

"Grinder" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> DaveW wrote:
>
> > Each IDE controller channel can only run up to TWO drives.
>
> I've heard that it's not a good idea to put an optical disc drive and a
> hard drive on the same channel. Is that needless anxiety?
>

Each of my IDE channels has a hard drive and an optical drive. So far, so
good.

--
Bearman
If it's got tits, tires, tubes, or transistors, it's trouble.

In message <zMCMd.46986$IV5.28638@attbi_s54> Grinder
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>DaveW wrote:
>
>> Each IDE controller channel can only run up to TWO drives.
>
>I've heard that it's not a good idea to put an optical disc drive and a
>hard drive on the same channel. Is that needless anxiety?

There can be some performance problems, and if the optical drive is a
burner you're risking making some coasters, but these days it's not a
big deal.


--
'Tis far better to have snipped too much than to never have snipped at all.

With older motherboards both devices on the same cable would run at the I/0 speed of the slower device, which usually meant that the speed of the hard drive would be reduced. Newer boards with dual FIFO buffers are supposed to not have this limitation.

Grinder wrote:
>
> DaveW wrote:
>
> > Each IDE controller channel can only run up to TWO drives.
>
> I've heard that it's not a good idea to put an optical disc drive and a
> hard drive on the same channel. Is that needless anxiety?

--
Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 14:18:08 GMT, Mike Walsh
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>With older motherboards both devices on the same cable would run at the I/0 speed of the slower device, which usually meant that the speed of the hard drive would be reduced. Newer boards with dual FIFO buffers are supposed to not have this limitation.
>

"Older" being around '94 or earlier.