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For some time I've had the same setup: four hard disks on the two IDE
controllers on the motherboard, and two DVD drives attached to a PCI IDE
controller card, one drive on each controller on the card.
Any time I tried to attach another device to the PCI card, my system would
not boot. I put this down to an arbitrary glitch - it was an old IDE card
(Siig ATA 66) with a driver that hadn't had an update for years.
So I've just installed a new Silicon Image PCI IDE controller card
(SIL0680) with the latest drivers - and I have exactly the same problem. I
can install a single DVD drive on each controller, and it works fine. But
if I install a third drive, the system won't boot.
I've never read anything about a limit to the number of IDE devices under
Windows XP, but I thought I should ask the question - is there any limit on
the number of IDE devices, or is there another possible explanation?
System: Windows XP SP2, ECS L7VTA Socket A motherboard
JohnK
controllers on the motherboard, and two DVD drives attached to a PCI IDE
controller card, one drive on each controller on the card.
Any time I tried to attach another device to the PCI card, my system would
not boot. I put this down to an arbitrary glitch - it was an old IDE card
(Siig ATA 66) with a driver that hadn't had an update for years.
So I've just installed a new Silicon Image PCI IDE controller card
(SIL0680) with the latest drivers - and I have exactly the same problem. I
can install a single DVD drive on each controller, and it works fine. But
if I install a third drive, the system won't boot.
I've never read anything about a limit to the number of IDE devices under
Windows XP, but I thought I should ask the question - is there any limit on
the number of IDE devices, or is there another possible explanation?
System: Windows XP SP2, ECS L7VTA Socket A motherboard
JohnK