Is It Possible?

[bigdawgfoxx]

Soul..that was a VERY good question lol thanx livy for the info..i wanted to know also lol

[Gooch2k]

Does anyone know of any PCI IDE controllers that are fairly cheap and work well? I'd just like to get a few of opinions about some cards before I choose one.

Cheers.

[ilw]

Its hard to find info about these cards cos they're not that popular and I don't think theres a lot of difference between most of them. I did see a cheap one at dabs manufacturer code: K14PCAT133 from MAxtor which looked alright. But i saw some really bad reviews for a promise board, saying it wouldn't support cdrw drives and dvd burners and was generally just crap.
Whatever board u decide to buy try running it past google and seeing if any reviews pop up.
Good luck, if u find a good one, post the name please cos I may have to get one soon as well. I wish motherboard manufacturers would add another slot.

[ooo]

pci cards are around 20 dollars.. :/

i want one but i dont have an extra hard drive... so itz no point as of now..

www.pricewatch.com sells one for $17
www.newegg.com sells it for about the same...

[lynx]

In UK, try Maplin

They do an ATA100 pci card for £14.99 or an ATA133 pci card for £19.99

[metalrebelzz]

most motherboards support four IDE devices......which could mean 3 HDD's and one CD-ROM/CD-RW or w/e....

also, you can get expansion PCI cards that will support more IDE devices..but they're not very popular, so u have to look hard for them....

hope that helped.... :beerchug:

[leolaw]

Are ya'll noob?

I have not seen anyone mention about SCSI harddrive here????

Dont tell me that SCSI PCI card is not popular!!!!

The SCSI PCI card doesnt have limit of how many harddrive or other SCSI devices on it, as long as it can handle that!!!!!!!

[Somebody1234]

Originally posted by leolaw@30 July 2003 - 22:09
Are ya'll noob?

I have not seen anyone mention about SCSI harddrive here????

No, That's because the person who asked the question has an IDE drive.

Look at the first post of this thread, noob.

[Spindulik]

YES you CAN, use multiple hard drives as one!

You need something like the FastTrak66. I believe you can have up to 4 hard drives merged as on "physical hard drive", also use it as RAID. 2 masters, and 2 slaves. Plus you'll have your motherboard's hard drive to use a seperate source for IDE devices.

Click here here to see some interesting info in converting a cheap Ultra66 to an expensive FastTrak66.

[ilw]

I don't think he was asking about setting up multiple disks as one, his problem was that he had nowhere to connect up his new hard drive. I think the most common way of doing multiple disks as one is with JBOD (just a bunch of disks) which is supported by quite a lot of motherboard manufacturers. JBOD supports spanning partitions over multiple drives in any way that u like