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Ive run out of IDE ports so I have bought is PCI IDE 133 card is this correct?

I have bought this card to add extra IDE for a zip drive but it seems to go on about raid a lot and to install drivers within XP the disk is just full of folders with numbers etc and the instructions tell me to install the raid controller at boot up.

Any advice?

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mat

tmj883

Sounds like you've bought a PCI IDE RAID Controller rather than a simple PCI IDE Controller...needless to say most RAID controllers of this type only work with hard drives.
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Lee W, MVP

To follow up on tmj883's comment, consider rearranging your drives so you can put the ZIP drive on the motherboard IDE and one or more of the hard drives is moved over to the new controller.

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maimon22

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chiingliang

throw out the card, and buy this:
usb-ide converter
http://www.bixnet.com/usb20toideco.html
it is only usd10 in my country.

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willcomp

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auraorange

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OK problem solved:

I was trying to frantically install the drivers from the installation cd that came with the card, but I went to add new hardware in control panel and selected to install an IDE controller. It installed automatically and I actually un-installed the drivers that I had installed off the disk that were throwing errors. Finally, I have the zip drive on the new PCI IDE Controller card and it works fine.

Thanks for all the great feedback and help!

Mat