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In csu.cs Adam Carheden <carheden@holly.colostate.edu> wrote:
: I have two hard drives and one CD-ROM, all IDE that need to be connected
: to a single motherboard.  Right now my controller card is working find
: with one hd and the CD-ROM, but I can, of course, only connect two IDE
: devices to it, so how do I get the third one in there?  I'm guessing
: it's possible, because unix has the device files /deb/hdc*.  So, can I:

: 	a) Connect a second controller card, properly jumpered to be the
: secondary IDE device.

This is what I've done, and would recommend. BTW, many motherboards
already have two onboard IDE connectors...you might to make sure that
yours doesN'T before you install the card.

hda is my /
hdb is /mnt/cdrom,
and hdc is /shares

hda and hdb live together, hdc by itself.

Later,
Paul
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