🚀 go-pugleaf

Adam Carheden <carheden@holly.colostate.edu> wrote:
: My motherboard is very old, a 486 DLC, and it doesn't even have one
: built in controler card, much less two.  Anyway, I'm new to all this and
: my question was mostly if it was simply a matter of jumpering the second
: card correctly.  I'm also doing this cheap with used parts, so I
: probably won't get a manual with the second controller card.  What other
: things might a controler card be jumpered to do?

As far as I can tell you, one set of IDE headers can control at
most two drives -- a master and an indentured servant. (Slave is
so ugly of a word! :)  So, if you have one header, you can only
run your CD-ROM and one IDE drive.

If you do put a second card in, you should jumper it so that is is,
at the very least, not in the same place as the other card. 
Unfortunatly, I'm not in Linux right now, or I could
tell you what ports to jumper it to. If it helps, the naming 
scheme goes something like this:

primary master - hda
primary slave  - hdb
srcondary master - hdc
secondary slave  - hdd

Finally, you may find it simpler to just get an IDE card that 
alreay has both headers...

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