🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3kmcj1$hce@macondo.dmu.ac.uk> "Steven Jones" writes:

> mikeg@paracon.demon.co.uk (Mike Granby) wrote:
> 
> > > I want to add an IDE CD ROM to a system currently configured with two 
> > > IDE HDDs (One Master one Slave). I seem to recall IDE will only handle 
> > > two drives max. Does the CD ROM pretend to be a slave drive and thus 
> > > clash with the existing slave IDE HDD? 
> > 
> > They can generally be either master or slave. The limit of no more
> > than two IDE devices per interface still applies, whatever you do.

> 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?

+---------------------------+--------------------------+
| Mike Granby               | Tel +44 (0)1246 45 45 65 |
| Paradigm Controls Limited | Fax +44 (0)1246 45 47 67 |
+---------------------------+--------------------------+
| mikeg@paracon.demon.co.uk |                          |
+---------------------------+--------------------------+