wanting to hook up 3 hard drives IDE??

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  1. jruppert

    jruppert Member

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    I have 2 installed now using the IDE cables. I want to hook up another. Can this be done? I am not finding any IDE cables that support 3 devices.
     
    jruppert, Nov 17, 2004
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    you can only run on standard motherboards 4 ide drives such as hd, cd/dvdrom, cdrw/dvdrw drives & 2 ide dives per cable with 2 ide connectors on motherboard but there are boards that have 4 ide connectors on motherboard
     
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  3. Prisoner

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    You can also look into Raid setups.

    I have with an old Compaq Pentium 200 run three hard drives with on cable. You need a good junk store that sells mainframe cables with up to five or six IDE ports on it. I got mine for about $5, but I think I only got the three hard drive to reconize in Red hat 7.2, I don`t think I tried windows on it. that work as I could set the drives.
     
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  4. Praetor

    Praetor Moderator Staff Member

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    Some boxed drives come with IDE controllers (noticeably Maxtor drives 80GB and bigger, well they used to) ... if youre not into RAIDing then that might save you some money
     
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    you can also:
    a)get an external box that has a firewire and/or USB2 IDE bridge (I have one. works great, plus it's portable)

    b) get an internal IDE/firewire bridge. You install your HD inside the case, and this small device connects to where the IDE cable goes. then you connect to an INTERNAL firewire port using a regular firewire cable. You can add two devices in total to this bridge, so it's your HD plus one more. this is about 50 bucks.

    c) get a motherboard that supports 4 ide channels instead of 2

    d) get a PCI card that adds 2 more IDE channels (for a total of 4 more devices)
     
    oquela, Nov 17, 2004
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  6. Prisoner

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    Hey Praetor I haven`t seen you in long time.

    How do you have your three 160Gb drives set up? I now don't have my pentum set up that way. I have it on a 10Gb with Windows 98 and use an external 250Gb drive as a floater.

    Jruppert, why do you want 3 drives? what are there sizes? you may find it just slows down you system if small or only a 4200rpm.
     
    Prisoner, Nov 19, 2004
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  7. Streamcod

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    well , get IDE add on card you can link 4 hdd using this card,seprate than master/slave IDE

    make sure u have enough DC connector for the hdds (i like this dees)
     
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    You need a hard drive "controller card" that fits into a PCI slot on your PC (just like a sound card). Western Digital's "Special Edition" used to include these for free with their drives, so you can either look for one of these drives or buy one from Newegg.
     
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