Setting up my IDE channels

[The King of Pants]

Got an easy one for you guys I think, I have Soyo K7V Dragon Plus Mobo, my system builder buddy helped me put this thing together a few years back and recommended that I put my CDRW and DVD Drives on separate channels. This was great till I tried to add a second 100 gig WD hard drive about a year later, the only way that windows would see the drive was to put it on the Slave connector on a seperate IDE channelin cable select mode.

Now that this box is becoming my storage center/movie watching rig, I’d like to set it up with the following:

2 X 100 gig WD HD
1 X 200 gig Seagate HD
1 Yamaha 24x CDRW
1 16X Toshiba DVD ROM
400w Antec Smart power
1.4 t-bird
512 Samsung pc2100 ddr
Visiontek GF3 Ti 500
Win2k

The biggest question I have is how I should set up my IDE drives. The Soyo board sports 4 channels so I guess I’m looking for wiring instructions really :) It would be a plus if I didn't have to reformat the boot drive, but it wouldn't be the end of the world. Thanks in advance for all your help.

[MOC]

Here :
http://accelenation.com/?ac.id.128.1

http://www.mikeshardware.com/howtos/howto_connect_ide_hd.html

This guy had problems,same mobo as yours.

http://www.hardcoreware.net/forum/showthread.php?t=16962


HOW TO SET UP A RAID ARRAY
http://www.pctechguide.com/tutorials/RAID.htm

http://www.pcmech.com/hdindex.htm
http://www.scsi4me.com/index.php?page=SCSI_FAQ.htm

http://www.neoseeker.com/Companies/profiles/Soyo/

Another option is to get a PCI IDE addon card, as it has it's own bios, you can get just about any HD size and speed you want.
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/?epi_menuItemID=ba88f6d7cf664718376049b291346068&epi_menuID=976d37cd478c5826433f226075b46068&epi_baseMenuID=976d37cd478c5826433f226075b46068&channelpath=/en_us/Products/Accessories/Ultra%20ATA/Ultra%20ATA[s]133%20PCI%20Adapter%20Card

PCI cards
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=PCI+IDE+card&btnG=Google+Search

just to see if your powersupply is up to it.
http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/
http://www.usbyte.com/common/How_to_chose_or_upgrade_2.htm

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?Submit=list&catalog=410&InnerCata=410&DEPA=0&order=PRICE&InnerManu=1329

IDE cables has only 2 connectors, buy one with 3! :)

You can then move all your optical drives to the card and keep all your fast HDDs on the native IDE connections.
Promise controller. They're one of the larger IDE controller makers, and you'll have much better support


there that should keep you busy for awhile.lol