🚀 go-pugleaf

Michael Dwyer (mdwyer@holly.ColoState.EDU) wrote:
: 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...

Another thing to think about is most sound cards have an IDE port
on them for hooking up a CDROM. This is what is in my system, but
I haven't been able to figure out how to get the card to init without
first booting into dos/win to run the supplied driver software (Any 
ideas?) before rebooting into Linux to get the CD working.

But this might upgrade you both with upto 4 drives, and add sound at
the same time, still for fairly cheap.

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