Hello

Sonal · 06-03-2007, 06:59 AM

Hello everyone,

Can anyone help me on the following 2 to questions

PC general; how many IDE drives on a normal computer?

What is required when attaching a SCSI drive (make Master, Slave or Terminate it) ?

1 g0t 0wn3d · 06-03-2007, 09:50 AM

I only have 2 one for my hard drive and one for my cd drive, if your operating system is on that hard-drive or you if plan to put it on there make it master, also slave is only used if you have a master already, not really sure what terminate it means.

**twajetmech** · 06-03-2007, 09:52 PM

Normal will be whatever your mobo has support for....each ide connector will support 2 drives, my mobo has 3 ide connectors for a total of 6 possible drives, however today, most mobo mfg's are moving away from ide and replacing them with sata connectors, its not uncommon now to have only one ide connector on a mobo and up to 6 sata. You'll not find mainstream mobo's with scsi connectors, they are normally found on server boards, you may be able to find a pci adaptor card for adding scsi support

**linderman** · 06-04-2007, 04:51 AM

scsi controllers can handle up to 15 devices on a scsi chain

the ID is set at pins on the scsi drive

0-6 ID 7 is reserved for the controller then 8-15

the termination block is usually at the end of the cable

how many IDE connnectors does your motherboard have ????

if you were to get a controller card to add more drives; I would sugest a Sata controller card >>>> Sata drives are much cheaper than SCSI drives

Scsi is still the fastest and uses the CPU the least; however Sata has considerably closed the gap.

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Sonal Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 1 OS: xp	Hello Hello everyone, Can anyone help me on the following 2 to questions PC general; how many IDE drives on a normal computer? What is required when attaching a SCSI drive (make Master, Slave or Terminate it) ?

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06-04-2007, 04:51 AM	#4 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 19,375 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Re: Hello scsi controllers can handle up to 15 devices on a scsi chain the ID is set at pins on the scsi drive 0-6 ID 7 is reserved for the controller then 8-15 the termination block is usually at the end of the cable how many IDE connnectors does your motherboard have ???? if you were to get a controller card to add more drives; I would sugest a Sata controller card >>>> Sata drives are much cheaper than SCSI drives Scsi is still the fastest and uses the CPU the least; however Sata has considerably closed the gap. __________________ Even a Broken Clock is Right Twice a Day ! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial