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11-21-2004, 06:26 AM
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HELP how to Install more than two harddisk
Dear computer experts,
I am David, My mother board with two IDE port, first one I installed one Master Harddisk and one slave CD-RW, second one I installed one Master harddisk and one slave CD-ROM. My PC still have one harddisk space left, but IDE port is full.
Yesterday I bought one more harddisk, and a new IDE cable one metre long with four slots: ||=========||====||=====|| (something like this).
From my point of view it should be able to allow me to install one more harddisk on the first one so that for the first one I will have two harddisk and one CDRW. but my computer cannot detect my third device, if PC detected my new harddisk, then my CDRW will dis appear, if my PC detected my CDRW, my harddisk will disappear.
I never installed three devices in one IDE port. can some one guide me how to install? Thanks.
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11-21-2004, 06:28 AM
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An IDE cable with four slots? All of the connectors look the same or are two of them slightly different?
What is your motherboard's specific make/model?
Chances are good, if you wanna do this, that you'll have to buy an additional PCI IDE controller to accomplish.
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11-21-2004, 06:31 AM
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My mothreboard is gigabyte GA-6VXE7, running PIII 866.
yes, all ports are same, I have to buy additional hardware? does the IDE cable with four ports enable me to install three devices on one IDE port? the IDE cable is very expensive, cost me $20 the seller said can install three devices, one Master, one Slave one Cable select. but I don't know how?
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11-21-2004, 06:40 AM
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According to your motherboard's manual, only two IDE devices can be connected to each port, for a total of four devices. Someone else on here may have better experience with this, but I have never seen an IDE port that would take more than two devices.
Get your money back on that cable (and smack that seller), then get a PCI IDE controller card. It should be a breeze from there.
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11-21-2004, 01:15 PM
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i've never heard of anyone running three ide devices on one channel either...
i am going to go attempt to read about it.
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11-21-2004, 02:24 PM
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The ATA (IDE) channel design is pretty fixed, one master and one slave on a single channel. You will NOT get more than two devices working, I have no idea what the point of an IDE cable with more than two device connections is.
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