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From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Newbie Stops Leaping Forward!
> It was Nov 7, 2000, 19:55, when Steve Maytum keyboarded:
>
> >Hello everyone. I have managed to boot-up my new M/board and chip
thanks
> >to your suggestions. Still getting to grips with Linux , but just one
> >answer please if possible. In view of info on setting up new PC , am
I
> >correct in thinking that to fit multiple drives this has to be
achieved
> >by SCSI device? Sorry to bug you but I really don't know the answer
and
> >am too inexperienced to know where to go just yet! Regards --
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> You can set up 4 IDE devices on a normal motherboard. Some special
ones
> even appear to have 4 interfaces making a total of 8 devices.
> SCSI will allow for 7 devices, with certain controllers upto 15
devices in
> a chain.
>
> Paul
Those boards with 4 interfaces are RAID boards. ABit makes one for the
athlon/thunderbird (KT7-RAID, I think)You can really only use the normal
2 interfaces for up to 4 drives. The other 2 interfaces are used to
mirror the first 2.
If you're looking for general storage ability, and don't really need
speed on the extra drives, I would suggest IEEE1394 (or FireWire as it's
more commonly called).
I believe you can daisychain up to 63 devices to a single port, and it's
much faster than USB (50MB/sec.)!!
Now the only question is if it's supported under mdk7.2.
