Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!ogicse!milton!sumax!halcyon!ralphs From: halcyon!ralphs@seattleu.edu (Ralph Sims) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.hardware Subject: Re: How does one install an IDE drive? Keywords: IDE,disk,interface Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 91 03:03:36 GMT References: <1991Mar11.204553.6597@DRD.Com> Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service Lines: 18 john@DRD.Com (John Horeth) writes: > I have been offered a pretty good price on a IDE drive and want to know how > it connects to the computer. The saleman told me that it simply connected > to the motherboard??? Well, almost, and with some boards, maybe so. But most need some sort of interface, in this case called an IDE interface. They run about US$20 via mailorder, and normally include an 'intelligent' floppy controller built in. As for your particular board, I imagine it does not have the IDE interface on it, as it has accepted another type of controller in the past, without re-configuring it, I guess. -- halcyon!ralphs@seattleu.edu The 23:00 News and Mail Service - +1 206 292 9048 - Seattle, WA USA +++ A Waffle Iron +++