In the wee hour of 01:37 PM 7/7/01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] bequeathed such tales as these: >To one and all, > >This message contains info that I personally need clarification on, as >well as if it can be done and how. > >My understanding was that systems today, on the motherboard, contain 2 >IDE channels, both containing a master and slave capability. BUT that it >ONLY could handle 2 channels, and not any more, was what I always >understood current technology allowed for Pentium based systems. > >If you can add an additional PCI IDE controller card, how would you >configure the board to avoid conflicts with the existing ones already >installed on the motherboard controller??? > >Since my system already has all 4 IDE items filled (hard drive, Zip >drive, DVD drive, CD burner drive), this is important to me. I have had >to put both the DVD and burner drives on the secondary channel, BUT can >not burn a CD directly from the DVD to burner, since the software will >not allow direct to burn when both are on the same channel - it requires >that I either put them on different channels or I have to copy to hard >drive first then burn CD. So adding a 3rd channel would help, not only >for this problem but some others I am facing as well. > >Ralph Ralph, Promise makes ATA100 and ATA66 add-on controllers for just this purpose. With these you would put all your hard drives on the card and leave the cd's on the board. See more here http://www.promise.com/Products/Default.htm. Peter Kaulback ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
