Trent© said:
That's NOT true. It depends on the capability of the controller.
True, if it's a 486 or earlier then you'd be in trouble. However, as you're
already using a 70GB HDD I'd say your IDE channels are capable of addressing
devices independantly. Not many 386-486-very early Pentium PCs will run a
70GB HDD.
Trent, if you're going to make statements like that at least qualify them
with something like "Since the early Pentium 1 days almost all IDE
controllers are capable of independantly addressing IDE devices. Since
Pentium II days all are capable. Unless your PC is 10 years old or more you
should be fine."
Didn't you say you were A+ qualified? It cracks me up what shit people get
taught, even today. I have a friend who's just completed a polytech course
on computer hardware and he bought his exam papers home for me to look at. I
wouldn't have passed. I would have given correct answers, not what they'd
been taught. It's scary that people get these bits of paper that says they
know what they're doing and then get employment on the strength of them. I
was, frankly, appalled at the bullshit they get taught. If I was employing
I'd ask if they had any qualifications of this type, and if they did tell
them I wasn't interested in employing them. I'd rather teach someone from
scratch, someone with no false, pre-conceived ideas.
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