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ooo
03-27-2003, 12:32 AM
okay a com can onli hold two hard drives right, two cd rom drives and two floopys?
Luca_Snipes
03-27-2003, 12:43 AM
most motherboards can take any combination of harddisks and CD/DVD upto a total of 4, and 2 floppy drives.
It is possable to have many more disks than that by using extra controller cards (Some SCSI cards will run upto 15 drives)
Crazycol
03-27-2003, 12:45 AM
If you have a RAID motherboard you can run up to 8 IDE's
ooo
03-27-2003, 01:00 AM
ASUS P4PE Motherboard for Intel P4 478 Retail w/ Intel Hyper-Threading Technology, SATA, Gigabit LAN, Firewire IEEE1394
***1st Intel chip that TRUELY supports DDR333 PC2700***
Specifications:
Supported CPU: Socket 478 for IntelŪ PentiumŪ 4/ Celeron up to 3GHz
Chipset: Intel 845PE
FSB: 533 / 400 MHz
RAM: 3x 184-pin DDR333 PC2700/PC2100/PC1600Max 2GB
IDE: 2x UltraDMA 100/66/33
Serial ATA
Slots: 1x AGP 4X 6x PCI
Ports: 1x LPT, 2x COM, 2x PS2, 1x RJ45, 1x 1394,4xUSB2.0 and Audio Ports
Onboard Audio: SoundMAX AD1980 6-channel CODEC
Onboard Gigabit LAN: 100/1000 Mbs
Onboard Firewire: IEEE1394 interface Model#: P4PE/R/GBL/F/SATA

okay this has 2 ide... so im guesing i can have only 2 hard drives and 2 cd rom drives and 2 floppies w/ this
Crazycol
03-27-2003, 01:07 AM
Originally posted by Soul814@27 March 2003 - 02:00


okay this has 2 ide... so im guesing i can have only 2 hard drives and 2 cd rom drives and 2 floppies w/ this
Yes!
ooo
03-27-2003, 01:10 AM
darn... lol :P time to search!
tilen76
03-27-2003, 01:11 AM
NO, two IDE channels means, you can have up to 4 drives:

Each IDE channel can hold two drives, master drive and a slave drive:

You could have either:

- 4 hard drives
- 3 hard drives + 1 CD/CD-RW/DVD drive
- 2 hard drives + 2 CD/CD-RW/DVD drives
-1 hard drive + 3 CD/CD-RW/DVD drives
Luca_Snipes
03-27-2003, 01:22 AM
Serial ATA

this is also used for harddisks, you just need to buy a Serial ATA disk instead of an IDE one
ooo
03-27-2003, 02:15 AM
wow serial ata are like 170 ish for a 80gb hard drive OUCH lolz :P
Supernatural
03-27-2003, 03:33 AM
Yea, RAID/SCSI is very expensive and not worth it for the average user.
WebCheF
03-27-2003, 03:50 AM
I am not sure what ata is, but I have 3 hard drive and a cd-rw dvd-r and they are all labeled ata fixed in my intel app.accelerater report file.

I think as long as they are using the right cables and configurations that most hds are compatible.

I realy don't know? just thought I would spend my couple cents.
ooo
03-28-2003, 12:05 AM
im fine w/ my motherboard i guess :P... lolz no change i was just wondering...