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  1. February 28th, 2004, 09:52 PM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grandpapa
    It is possible to use more IDE devices I'm running 7drives 4 masters 3 slaves
    using PCI ATA 133

    Love exploding things in the laboratory
    Yeah it's possible, but WHY???....pappy?????
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  2. February 29th, 2004, 05:35 AM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by Straight_Shooter
    Yeah it's possible, but WHY???....pappy?????
    'cos he has 7 drives & loads of stuff !!??

    All IDE controllers can only generally handle four IDE devices, they are 'almost all' dual channel controllers & ide channels have two devices - ergo 4 IDE devices per controller

    If you want to access more concurrently you use an additional contoller

    We do however seem to making 'very hard work' of this question !

    I pressume that this was a working beast with '9x' on it ... then we 'upgraded' to xp & now its 'broke' ? & we never touched anything inside ???

    (& yeah there is only 4 IDE 'type' devices mentioned)

    Stuff that worked 'good' with 9x needent work the same with xp - xp requires acpi compliance & pci sharing 2.1 to work 'correctly' - check the xp HCL (hardware compatability list - I seem to say that a lot lately ...)
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