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From: lpdjb@brahms.amd.com (Jerry Bemis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: IDE questions
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.215934.8935@amd.com>
Date: 7 Feb 91 21:59:34 GMT
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In article <1991Feb6.140303.1@ssdvx2.mdcbbs.com> teague@ssdvx2.mdcbbs.com (Chris Teague) writes:
>Does anyone know what the drive limit is for an IDE interface card.  All of the
>IDE cables I have seen only have one drive connector.  Is it possible to put
>two or more hard drives on one interface card, or would they each need an
>interface card? 
Yes you can install two (2) IDE drives with one interface card.
A second connerctor can be put on the original cable.  Mine wasn't long enough 
so I made my own.  
NOW FOR THE HARD PART 
IDE drives come setup for single drive operation.  A jumper(s) needs to be 
changed on both drives.  Why is this hard?  The store I bought the second
drive from was not able to tell me what jumpers to change!  They told me 
several incorrect ways--of which one shorted my power supply.
I called the manufacturer. Then it was easy.
Set one to be drive 1 (some call it A). The other to be drive 2(dito B).

The drives are then:

C: 	drive 1  segment 1
D: 	drive 2  segment 1
E: 	drive 1  segment 2
F: 	drive 2  segment 2 
	
G:	ram drive
BE SURE TO RUN FDISK AND SETUP 
>
>Chris Teague

 LPDJB@brahms.amd.com                     
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