Topic: 3 Hd (Read 52 times)

frozen lake · « **on:** February 02, 2004, 05:33:00 AM »

Is it possible to safely have 3 HD on 1pc?

frozen lake · « **Reply #1 on:** February 02, 2004, 07:00:00 AM »

nice, how are they conected?

Aron Parsons · « **Reply #2 on:** February 02, 2004, 07:52:00 AM »

I currently have 3, had four for a while as well. All of them were connected on their own IDE channel; I got another IDE controller (PCI) for this. Let me tell you, having each on it's own channel is damn freaking fast for IDE drives! Plus you can be doing a crapload of HD-intensive stuff at once and not worry about a thing.

Bungholer · « **Reply #3 on:** February 03, 2004, 02:14:00 AM »

Holly shit i have 4 hard drives and a pioneer a07 dvd burner and a cdrom drive and a liteon 48x cd-rw and i can still have one more ide device to connect.
The secret is use a motherboard with raid! I use an abit with raid so i can use 8 ide devices and i would never buy a motherboard with only 2 ide channels.

frozen lake · « **Reply #4 on:** February 03, 2004, 03:48:00 AM »

well its not working too well

Here is what i have.......

Master HD is one its not IDE, one of those new things forget what

2nd is lave on IDE

now... When i put the 3rd in with spare IDE the pc hangs on start up

What am i doing wrong???

Thanks

frozen lake · « **Reply #5 on:** February 03, 2004, 10:40:00 PM »

still need help....................

geniusalz · « **Reply #6 on:** February 04, 2004, 06:42:00 AM »

Are the jumper settings correct?

frozen lake · « **Reply #7 on:** February 04, 2004, 10:52:00 PM »

well they are both on slave.........

so that would be 1 master and 2 slave..........

CamaroGuy · « **Reply #8 on:** February 05, 2004, 07:03:00 AM »

if you have 2 slaves on the same IDE they won't be detected, one has to be master and one slave.

frozen lake · « **Reply #9 on:** February 05, 2004, 07:05:00 AM »

DrunkPenguin · « **Reply #10 on:** February 05, 2004, 08:37:00 AM »

more than likely you have 2 IDE pots on your motherboard right? each of those ports can have 2 Hard Drives MAX. so in your case with 3 HDs, you need to take 2 of the HDs and put them on the same IDE port and have them share a cable, 1 of them will be master and 1 of them will be slave. On the other IDE port youll just have 1 HD connected to it, so that HD will just be master.

Make sence?

DrunkPenguin

nthingspecial · « **Reply #11 on:** February 05, 2004, 11:23:00 AM »

I can sell you a PCI IDE thingy.. for like 15+shipping if you wanted.. its pretty easy.

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