Re: three hds? is this possible?

["Littlefield, Tyler" <compgeek13@gmail.com>]

I'm just a poor white kid, but I'll have to check in to a harddrive when I
start getting some cash.
Kidding, but I'll go search the archives. I think I just need to set
something in the bios.
Thanks,
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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: three hds? is this possible?


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> You can have up to 4 ide devices in your system without needing an
> additional i/o card. So yes, you could have 1 cd-rom drive, and 3 hard
> drives, or any combination there of. You need to make sure that all
> your devices are jumpered properly, and that the bios is set up to
> recognize your drives correctly.
>
> Seriously, if you find yourself running out of room a good part of the
> time, consider getting a bigger drive, that's what I ended up having
> to do. I do seem to recall though, that you have an older system
> running win98. If that's the case, then your bios might not be able to
> fully recognize the capacity on today's drives, depending on how old
> your system is. This of course, might or might not be fixed by a newer
> version of your bios, assuming the bios on your board is flashable,
> and not an eprom.
>
> BTW, I do recall this kind of stuff being discussed on here more then
once,
> so you might want to have a look through the list archives.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 10:25:31AM -0600, TheCreator wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > I read somewhere on google that it was possible to hook 3 hds up to a
system with out the raid card.
> > It said that you could disconnect the cd drive, and use the IDE cable
from that to hook up a hd.
> > My problem, is I'm running out of room. I've got like 38gb of music, and
other files, and my hd is only 40 gb.
> > My idea was to move some folders that are expanding like the music
folder to the other hd, and then mount it in media where the normal music
folder was, and call it music.
> > Any help would be appriciated.
> > I tried hooking it up to the ide cable on the cd drive like it told me,
and it didn't register it.
> > Thanks,
> > ~~TheCreator~~
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