Brent Reynolds wrote:
>YOu could also invest in an I/O card with a secondary, or even a tertiary
>IDE controller interface. Each controller can support four devices. Some
>motherboards support secondary and even tertiary controllers. Of course,
>the more controllers you use, the more devices you connect, the more
>complicated your setup becomes with IRQ lines used, port addresses spoken
>for, device drivers loaded, etc., etc.
That would be an option that I haven't thought of, but I'm not so sure all
OS would like it does anyone know? (And how much does such a card cost
anyway? - they are all on the m/b these days).
>SCSI for at least one of your two controllers would be a good idea, since
>you could have on one SCSI controller, 7 or 15 devices, depending on which
>type and flavor of SCSI you buy. Of course, whether and how you can do some
>of those things, depends on what controller cards you have, and what your
>motherboard's BIOS can support or be upgraded to support.
I can get one 8.4GB SCSI HD or 3 10.1GB IDE drives and still have some
money over (perhaps for a 4.2GB if the guy in the store is nice that day)
so that wouldn't be very usefull IMO.
Besides the fact is that I have a few HDs (IDE) lying around here and those
are the ones I want to use. Buying new SCSI drives isn't something I had
planned (but for once I might afford one SCSI drive but since I don't need
more drives it isn't interesting to me). But thanks for the ideas, when I
win the lottery I might get SCSI - but wait a minute I don't play on the
lottery ;)
//Bernie
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