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From: Steven Jones
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 12:42
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 12:42
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> > So is the rule here that you can add another IDE controller to a > > system without problems? A real small IDE controller cam with my > > Mitsumie 2x IDE, can this be used with my currrent (intergrated) > > controller without probs? This would be most benifical when I come > > to buy another drive if I don't have an EIDE controller by then. > > If you can get the new IDE card to use the secondary adapter address > you should have no problems. We have a machine in the office with > two IDE ports and I've had an IDE CD-ROM working as a master on the > second port or as a slave on the first. Does you mini-IDE card have > any jumpers to change its location? I'll have to check on that, but if so and I can get it to work with two cards, will this solve my currents problem of not being able to use 32bit Diak & File access in Windows, and use the CDROM at the same time. At the moment my hardrive runs at 1/3 of the speed when the CDROM is enabled (i.e. No 32bit stuff) and It's realy begining to anoy me... Steve Jones c2sj@dmu.ac.uk
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,65f4a4be4c0c08e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public X-Google-Thread: 104cf5,65f4a4be4c0c08e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid104cf5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-23 05:47:12 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!seralph9!dmu!usenet From: Steven Jones <c2sj@dmu.ac.uk> Newsgroups: demon.tech.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom Subject: Re: IDE - CD ROMs Date: 23 Mar 1995 12:42:32 GMT Organization: De Montfort University, Central Newsserver Leicester UK Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3krqbo$ks3@macondo.dmu.ac.uk> References: <749882286wnr@dcad.demon.co.uk> <795795754snz@paracon.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: aether.cms.dmu.ac.uk