[ILUG] ide device limit...

[Sean]

Kenn Humborg wrote something:
{ On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 11:04:50PM +0000, Sean wrote:
{ > 
{ >   limit on # of ide devices...  I know its 4, two per channel,
{ >   but can one get a ide controller card and have more ?
{ >   Me pc is full of ide devices and I'm wanting more...
{ >   (already have scsi controller.. gone that road)
{ 
{ My (pre-PNP) ISA SoundBlaster 16 actually has an IDE interface
{ that I _could_ hook up as ide2, giving me hde and hdf.  However,
{ there are a few problems with this:
{ 
{ o  ISA performance sucks.  Might not be too bad for CDs...
{ 
{ o  I have only _one_ IRQ left.  And I want that for another
{    serial port soon.

  same here.

{ 
{ o  No EIDE.  Don't know how well they'd work with large disks
{ 
{ You'll probably find that El Cheapo multi-I/O cards only
{ cater for IDE0 and IDE1.  (And they are usually ISA as well.)
{ 
{ I'd imagine that PCI cards that support decent EIDE interfaces
{ would have such low demand that you'd be paying on the order
{ of a hundred quid.

  I was thinking of something like the Promise Ultra ATA 66 Controller Card,
  which is PCI and recently supported in Linux (the 33 anyway)...

{ 
{ In that case, the best thing to do is buy bigger disks and sell
{ off your older smaller ones.  How big are your current 
{ disks?  I might take them for a reasonable price :-)

  Me disk is big, 13Gb, or have I been asleep.  I don't want for more
  disk space, scsi takes care of that for now.  I was thinking of other
  ide devices, CD burners... etc..

{ 
{ Later,
{ Kenn


Sean.
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