Re: How to connect eight HD's?

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From: Earl Brown
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 00:00

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On Fri, 28 Nov 1997 13:40:09 +0000, Harry Broomhall <haeb@demon.net>
wrote:

>Klaus Rieke wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> i have to connect eight hard drives to one PC ( ISA/PCI ).
>> 
>> Has anyone got experience with that?
>> Do i have to use a special controller?
>> 
>
>   Yes.  It's called a 'SCSI' controller.  And the hard drives
>have to be SCSI drives. 
>   If it *has* to be IDE then you are in for fun.  It may not
>even be doable, depending on your motherboard and BIOS.
>
>
>   Regards,
>      Harry.
When I was looking into a bios upgrade card for an older computer that
supported only 2 drives with less than 512 meg per drive  I  saw an
add for a card that supported 4 drives & drives larger than 512 megs .
The add also pointed out that if you upgraded to a new computer with a
PCI bus that supported 4 drives that you could use this card in the
new computer and you could now have 8 IDE drives on one computer.  I'm
sorry I don't know the name or model of the card but I know It was out
there this last spring. ( Saw it in an add in a computer mag.)

Earl
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