On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 23:55:24 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric S. Emerson)
wrote:
> On Tues, Jan. 4, 2000, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 21:54:42 +0100 (MET),
> Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Sergei wrote:
>>>> If you have ATX case, you may try to add one more fan, or
>>>> bigger copper radiator to CPU. Also try to open case and check work
>>>> without cover.
>>> The cover? I haven't had it on for a long long time now... (might be a
>>> problem since the fan is pushing hot air upwards, otherwise it would be
>>> pushed away and up by it's own heat.
>> The cover? Do computers _have_ covers???
>> OH yeah, that's the thing I removed from mine the day I got it.
>> It's around here somewhere.<vbg>
> Cover, did you say cover? I thought that was a tray!
> That's what I use to store all my documentation in
> so I can carry it from computer to computer!
> Anyway, I've never been able to fit everything I "need"
> inside any desktop case. I just set a big box over mine
> so I don't accidently drop my screw driver or coffee
> cup inside it while it's running. My friend's grandson
> spilled a whole can of pop on his fast pentium laptop.
> He had to buy a new computer!
NOTE - i didn't snip because it's hilarious..technonerds
in full flight....
> BTW, does anyone have any experience running a RLL HDD
> and a EIDE HDD on the same motherboard?
Eric....No...you can't do it.....you haven't got room in your
case for all those drives...(unless you got some of those
nifty little 2.5" laptop drives and outrigger mounted them <vbg>
Seriously....yes....back when IDE was just coming in, I had
a 2-drive RLL card running 2-connor 40Mb and then added one
of the original IDE cards, and two 80 Mb IDE drives....this
was on a 10Mhz Turbo XT.....the RLL card was a Western Digital
and the IDE card was a ??? (these were both 8-bit bus cards).
These cards were "fully loaded" with jumpers, even though
they both had on-card BIOSes.....and I had to tweak around
with the jumpers.....
Primary things, are just like any other add-in card...
Base ADDresses, IRQ, on-card BIOS ADDresses...all must be
unique....no sharing of resources is allowed.....
EIDE has, of course, 2-port capability (4-drives) while
RLL (AFIK) has 2-drive capability.....I don't remember any
unsurmountable gotchas from running the two controller cards
....so, EIDE + RLL should work.....but, WHY???....RLL drives
cannot approach IDEs for access speed....unless you'r just
trying to use some spare RLLs.
If the controllers are on the motherboard, itself, then
they must be fully configurable, with jumpers, or BIOS
settings...
gregy
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