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5 EIDE devices in one PC

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Disarray

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I am looking for a way to configure this:

2- 200 gig harddrves
1- 60 gig harddrive
1- DVD burner
1- Removable tray for a 4th harddrive.

My motherboard does not accept SATA. Any ideas on how to set this up? Thanks
 
A PCI card with another IDE controller is probably the cheapest solution. $27 will get you this, which should do the trick.

-SEAL
 
Get a PCI IDE controller. A good one will cost you maybe $60 (an estimate) at newegg. It will probably even have some RAID. I have seen them as cheap as $20 at retail shops.

Connect your C:\ drive to primary IDE master on your mobo. Then, you second most data intesive drive to the secondary IDE master. After that, cable layout can become an issue. So, try things in your case. Also, I have had a few secondary Maxtor drives that did not like being IDE slaves. So, if something does not work, move it around. But, leave the C: on the primary IDE master

Hope this helps
 
Thanks for the suggestions. Dang, I just ordered from the egg too. Well here goes again.
 
Like everyone has said, PCI controller. I'm using a card like this (by SIIG) and it's working fine. It was $40 in 2001 when I bought it, so I guess street value would be... $0.28 now. But hey, it works.
 
just curious, but if you're using an nf7-s v2 how come you can't use sata?
 
Ice Czar said:
Damn near the only solution :p

but not quite
there are also IDE switchers
like the Romtec Trios

http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?caller=articles/trios2/trios2.html
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Those things are CRAP. Out of 25 PCs that were built with those we had to replace roughly 3/4 of them and found out they wouldn't work with any cables other than the ones that come with it. If you've had no problems with it consider yourself extremly lucky.
 
PCI's preferable certainly, but you can always get a USB2.0 to IDE converter too. Basically the guts of an external enclosure.
 
dualblade said:
just curious, but if you're using an nf7-s v2 how come you can't use sata?
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This is not on the NF7-s, it is on an older gigabyte board with an amd 2400 in it. Im setting up an HTPC.
 
The_Mage18 said:
and found out they wouldn't work with any cables other than the ones that come with it.
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Ive always taken cabling & routing very seriously (and testing too)
those are high quality teflon 12" single connector cables
bear a striking resemblence to my Promise XS6000 cables
but Im not suprised they only work with the cables supplied
your adding extra interfaces and cable length to a standard that was orignally designed for 33MHz worked over to 66MHz and forced to 133MHz

theres a reason SATA was developed :p


I havent had any issues with my Trios I
of course it in effect limits your number of drives online at any one time ;)
 
I had an old Soyo 6BA+IV that had 2xATA33 and 2xATA66 onboard, then i added another 2xATA100. 12 devices max :D
 
most Ive had in a single box was
6 HDDs in RAID5
3 HDDs on the Trios (IDE0)
1 optical and 1 HDD (IDE1)
2 HDD on a Promise TX2 (with 2 more possible)

My IDE NAS is now down to 10 drives
My external RAID arrays (SCSI) have 10 drives apiece
 
Ice Czar said:
most Ive had in a single box was
6 HDDs in RAID5
3 HDDs on the Trios (IDE0)
1 optical and 1 HDD (IDE1)
2 HDD on a Promise TX2 (with 2 more possible)

My IDE NAS is now down to 10 drives
My external RAID arrays (SCSI) have 10 drives apiece
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two words :
[H]OT DAMN
 
hot being the operative word :p

could all be reduced to a single 2U rackmount with 1\8 the drives, power consumption and waste heat these days
multi-user environment equipment for a single user environment
I did get good deals on it all though
 
Ice Czar said:
most Ive had in a single box was
6 HDDs in RAID5
3 HDDs on the Trios (IDE0)
1 optical and 1 HDD (IDE1)
2 HDD on a Promise TX2 (with 2 more possible)

My IDE NAS is now down to 10 drives
My external RAID arrays (SCSI) have 10 drives apiece
Click to expand...
Hey, that's not that many. My system at one point had:
scsi controller -> 5x4GB scsi disks, raid5 (still have these disks)
motherboard -> 3 27GB ide disks, seperate (later deceased)
motherboard -> cdrom
promise ata/33 card -> 8, 4.3, 2.1, empty (all except the 2 still working)
So I had 16+81+14=113 GB of storage, in 11 disks. I had an AT power supply (200w) to power the scsi array, and everything else was on the main PSU (300 watts). I had windows 98 and 2000, and about 3 copies of linux on that machine. Those were the good years.

edit: the scsi disks were on the seperate power supply only so I could leave the array off when I didn't need it, because they whined like banshees. Otherwise, well, I had enough Y adaptors, what's the problem? I figured it out eventually.
 
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