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3 hard drives 2cd-roms
Is there away to have 3 hard drives and 2 cd-rom on one computer ?
Or do I have to chang my bios chip
Or do I have to chang my bios chip
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It's almost impossible to get more than 4 IDE devices working on a PC. The problem is that a single IDE controller can only handle 2 devices. The other part of the problem is that most PCs can only handle 2 IDE controllers. There are some boards that can be configured as a 3rd IDE channel, but it's almost impossible to free up enough IRQs, DMAs, and IO locations to get it to work.
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It is possible to connect 3 hard drives and 2 cd-roms in one another way plus the discused above. I mean SDX. That is a standart for hard drives and CD-roms to connect one to another. That mean that you can connect 2 standart IDE HDDs and 1 standart IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM to your motherboard and on the 4-th connector (secondary chanel, slave) 1 IDE HDD that is SDX capable. So you can connect a SDX capable CD-rom to the SDX connector on the SDX HDD. The total is 3hdd+2cd. Other combinations are possible
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