Peter, When you said put the hard drives on the card, and the CDs on the board, I am assuming you meant to put the hard drive on the Promise card, and the CD/DVD drives on the motherboard - am I correct??? The other question I have is that I sometimes have to boot up into native dos (am using Win98 on my system here at home) - if I put my hard drive(s) on the Promise card, will I have any problem booting into native dos mode??? Ralph Peter Kaulback wrote: > > In the wee hour of 01:37 PM 7/7/01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] bequeathed > such tales as these: > >To one and all, > > > >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??? > > > >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 =====================================================
