PCI multi-io card with IDE??

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Is it possible to get a PCI multi-io card with IDE and a parallel
port?

I can't find one. I can't find anything with hard-drive connections.

I would like to have a second parallel port, and I would like to have
more than 4 hard-drive/cd-rom connections. With ISA, this all came on
one card -- and that would be best -- but this mobo has no ISA slots.

Thanks

Meirman
 
meirman said:
Is it possible to get a PCI multi-io card with IDE and a parallel
port?

I can't find one. I can't find anything with hard-drive connections.

I would like to have a second parallel port, and I would like to have
more than 4 hard-drive/cd-rom connections. With ISA, this all came on
one card -- and that would be best -- but this mobo has no ISA slots.
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Not been anything like that since ISA cards.
 
In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt on Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:28:36 -0400
Richard Kawamura said:
Wouldn't a USB to parallel be better?
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Yes and no.

It would save a slot, but I thought I could get the printer and hard
drive ports on one card. I guess not.

And they're more expensive.

Thanks. I didn't know about such things before.
Richard

meirman said:
Is it possible to get a PCI multi-io card with IDE and a parallel
port?

I can't find one. I can't find anything with hard-drive connections.

I would like to have a second parallel port, and I would like to have
more than 4 hard-drive/cd-rom connections. With ISA, this all came on
one card -- and that would be best -- but this mobo has no ISA slots.

Thanks

Meirman
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Meirman
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meirman said:
In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt on Sat, 30 Apr 2005 12:33:02 +0930



Thanks for all the urls. None of them have ide ports so I guess there
is no such animal anymore, with both. I guess I will get two
different things. I didn't want to buy either if I could buy them
both on one card, but I will now. Thanks.
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Yeah, I didn't see any PCI combo cards like the old ISA jobs.

I think that's because in the old, old, days when all the slots were ISA
(or local bus) there was often nothing at all on the motherboard and so
combo cards were how the 'basics' got there, but now days they all come
with the 'basics' so you're looking at an 'add-on' (I.E. they presume one
isn't looking for an 'everything' card since systems these days already
have 'everything').
 
In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt on Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:42:03 -0500
David Maynard said:
Yeah, I didn't see any PCI combo cards like the old ISA jobs.

I think that's because in the old, old, days when all the slots were ISA
(or local bus) there was often nothing at all on the motherboard and so
combo cards were how the 'basics' got there, but now days they all come
with the 'basics' so you're looking at an 'add-on' (I.E. they presume one
isn't looking for an 'everything' card since systems these days already
have 'everything').
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I see what you mean.

I know some people run more than 2 HD's and my new case has room for 4
or 5. I suppose I can find a Promise card, but I have one now in my
200MHz and iirc it insisted on booting from the HD connected to the
Promise card, and the other HD was second. At the same time it, or
someone on a ng, warned that the geometry on the HD might not be the
same as when connected straight to the mobo. So this time I wanted to
avoid Promise cards, and at least have the boot drive connected
straight to the mother board.
Meirman
 
meirman said:
In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt on Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:42:03 -0500



I see what you mean.

I know some people run more than 2 HD's and my new case has room for 4
or 5. I suppose I can find a Promise card, but I have one now in my
200MHz and iirc it insisted on booting from the HD connected to the
Promise card, and the other HD was second.
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Yes, on older systems that had boot options only for floppy, IDE, or CD
there had to be some way to boot from the Promise, since that would be a
likely reason for adding it (RAID or better UDMA speed), so the Promise
cards tend to grab the system on their own initiative in those cases. I
know what you mean, though, because with newer systems the on-board IDE is
'better' than the old Promise add-on and it can be a pain trying to get
around the dern thing insisting it's the boot device.

That's supposed to be easier when the BIOS has an option to boot from
'external' or 'external SCSI' as the Promise should behave as an external
SCSI interface.
At the same time it, or
someone on a ng, warned that the geometry on the HD might not be the
same as when connected straight to the mobo.
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Anything's possible but I think that highly unlikely unless you're using
something peculiar to the card such as RAID. It should conform to LBA just
like any other IDE interface.
 
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