on 8/30/01 1:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Check out the Sonnet site: http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo.html It
tells you all about the card and there's a nice picture of it. I've used
IDE drives in my PC's for forever! and have a couple extra sitting around
collecting dust. Buying the IDE controller will save me a ton of money and
allow me to use a 10 gig and 4 gig hard drive and I'm pretty certain I can
even use this card to control a CD......though I'm not too certain about if
it would work with a DVD (probably not!)
This card will allow you to control 4 drives. My experience with my PC's
tells me that you can run 2 hard drives on one channel and a CD or two on
the other.
I already am using a Sonnet G3 upgrade card and am very pleased with it. In
my humble opinion, this is an excellent product.
> i second this thought
>
> as a matter of fact if i don't get this damn
> firewire hd to work
> that would be a great route for me to take
> get an IDE-PCI card and then just add IDE drives
>
> one question though
> what is a PCI IDE drive controller.
> is it merely a card that i plug in and maybe an extension or two
>
> mike
>
>
>>
>>>
>>> -Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> My $0.02.... I may not know a lot about Macs, but I DO know that IDE hard
>> drives are more common to find for sale to the average guy (me). And,
>> having shopped around, personally, I feel that IDE drives are a lot cheaper
>> than the SCSI drives that I've seen.
>> When I found out that a PCI card was available so that I could put in an IDE
>> drive, I jumped for joy (inside). I plan (I'd be killed if I spent the $99
>> to buy one now) to buy the Sonnet card in October or November.
>> Now, if somebody asked me the question that was asked above, my answer would
>> be to buy the PCI IDE drive controller.
>>
>> Tim Collier
>>
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>
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