Jameco lists one in their catalog, so they shouldn't be too hard to
find. A newer IDE controller with BIOS enhancement should be
able to handle the large HDD too.
Mike
On 25 Oct 99, at 4:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How common is it to see 2 IDE controllers on one card? THis fellow is
> cobbling together a computer from bits even though he's broke and
> completely computer illiterate. He has no IDE controller on the board and
> wants 2 hard drives and a cdrom all ide. I told him best to toss the
> 100MB hard drive as the 4.4GB he has is more than enough. Apparently a
> tech friend of his was unable to get the large drive to set up as master
> or primary. I suspect he didn't try the disk mangler. Every large drive
> I've encountered in an older machine wants the disk mangled first. (Disk
> Manager partitioning) I told him to surrender and I'll take away his
> screwed up system and return it functioning. He's not quite ready yet.
> Wants it to surf just once. He's got the whole fool system on a 100MB
> drive and the game he wants won't let him install to E: So, could he get
> an I/O card with 2 IDE adapters? Is it common or unusual?
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> perfect, it's because I'm not properly placed. YvP oc999
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