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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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06-03-2007, 10:50 AM
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Re: Hello
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.
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06-03-2007, 10:52 PM
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Re: Hello
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
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06-04-2007, 05:51 AM
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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.
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