Can I install a 3rd hard disk?

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siddharth jain

Hi

I am using a Pentium 4 2.0 GHz.
I have a primary disk of 20 GB and a slave of 80 GB. Is it possible
for me to install a 3rd hard disk of 80 GB? I do not have any free
slots on my data cable.
Will windows / linux recognize the 3rd hard disk or will it simply
ignore it?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Siddharth Jain
 
On 3 Feb 2005 12:07:41 -0800, (e-mail address removed)
(siddharth jain) wrote:

| Hi
|
| I am using a Pentium 4 2.0 GHz.
| I have a primary disk of 20 GB and a slave of 80 GB. Is it possible
| for me to install a 3rd hard disk of 80 GB? I do not have any free
| slots on my data cable.
| Will windows / linux recognize the 3rd hard disk or will it simply
| ignore it?

Don't you have a secondary IDE connector on your motherboard? If
that's already full with CD or DVD drives or whatever, and if your
motherboard doesn't support SATA, you'll need to buy a PCI IDE card as
somebody already suggested.

Larc



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DaveW said:
Each IDE controller channel can only run up to TWO drives.
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I've heard that it's not a good idea to put an optical disc drive and a
hard drive on the same channel. Is that needless anxiety?
 
Grinder said:
I've heard that it's not a good idea to put an optical disc drive and a
hard drive on the same channel. Is that needless anxiety?
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Each of my IDE channels has a hard drive and an optical drive. So far, so
good.
 
In message <zMCMd.46986$IV5.28638@attbi_s54> Grinder
I've heard that it's not a good idea to put an optical disc drive and a
hard drive on the same channel. Is that needless anxiety?
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There can be some performance problems, and if the optical drive is a
burner you're risking making some coasters, but these days it's not a
big deal.
 
With older motherboards both devices on the same cable would run at the I/0 speed of the slower device, which usually meant that the speed of the hard drive would be reduced. Newer boards with dual FIFO buffers are supposed to not have this limitation.
 
With older motherboards both devices on the same cable would run at the I/0 speed of the slower device, which usually meant that the speed of the hard drive would be reduced. Newer boards with dual FIFO buffers are supposed to not have this limitation.
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"Older" being around '94 or earlier.
 
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