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From: Christopher Chow
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 07:03

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I presently have two IDE HD's connected to my system through a multi
function card which supports a maximum of 2 HDs. I'm running low on 
disk space, and would like to add another drive. I don't anticipate
going beyond 4 total HDs in the forseable future, and would prefer
to continue with IDE drives instead of also investing in a SCSI 
controller and SCSI drives.

1.   In order to add IDE drive #3, could I just buy another generic IDE 
     controller (which supports 2 drives max) and add another drive, or
     would I have to disable the IDE controller on my multtifunction card
     and buy one of those 4-drive IDE controllers?  

2.   How would I set the drive types for drives #3 and #4 (since my AMI BIOS'
     setup screen seems to only recognize 2 drives.)

3.   In a 4 IDE drive configuration, is one drive the master and up to three 
     drives the slaves, or are the drives configured as a pair of master-slave
     pairs?

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Christopher Chow
---------------------------   Phone:          518-426-0687
1 Notre Dame Drive - Rm 317   Internet:       chow@theory.tc.cornell.edu
Albany, NY 12208-3413         America Online: Chris Chow

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