Bill, My actual Q40 configuration is : - 2 ISA HD/Com Controller cards (no more ISA Slot free) - 1 CD-Rom 50x - 1 HP CD-Writer Plus - one SMSQ/E 6GB HD mounted on a removable bay (in caddy) and a second hd with Qdos Classic (in caddy too). - CF Reader (as soon as it will arrive) - ser1 : sernet link with QPC - ser2 : mouse - ser4 : modem The main SMSQE HD holds also Linux. The three IDE Devices work without any problems.
First IDE Card : - Win_drive 1,0,0 (win1_) - Win_drive 2,0,1 (win2_) - Cdr_drive 1,1,1 (cdr1_) Second IDE card : - Cdr_drive 2,2,1 (cdr2_) - CF (?) I started one year ago to study how to have more than two serial ports active on Q40. I need at least three ports, one for sernet link with qpc, one for the mouse, one for modem. I bought one year ago an ISA card to add 2 more com port but I never succeed to make it working , I really do not why, probably irq conflict or smsqe too old. Reading recent posting about CF I decided to buy a second ide isa card to have all the necessary devices in place. There are not so many possibility to choice among different models on the market, I took one from my PC shop and after one hour(!) to configure all the dip-switches (tell me if you need the setting I used) I installed it and magically everything was working correctly (new serial ports included !). I found also some new cards with the possibility to manage 4 IDE Devices on the same card but without the serial ports, no idea if they work in q40. Next steps: - ISA Rising Card to have at least 3 ISA Slot and install Ethernet Card (it will work ?) - Wireless Keyboard and mouse - hoping in smsq/e 3.0, file names longer than 35 chars, cd-writer software etc.......... Ciao a tutti __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
