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Re: ide cable ports and a tower
« on: October 14, 2005, 03:40:49 AM »
@Will-i-am
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I went to the local computer chop shop and their box of cables all have 2 ports for drives on them.

That's the only IDE cables you'll find.

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Is there an extension for the thing, or a splitter?

IDEFix. But the A4000 manual surely doesn't mention it.

@orange
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4?, are you sure, maybe it requires some kind of buffered ide thingy?

Well, at least A1200 can have 4 units with IDEFix hardware + software. And no, it doesn't need to be buffered (I used selfmade IDEFix HW for years, no problems). Default config can't have more than 2 devices, that's for sure. :-)

@Will-i-am
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my A4000T manual says it can support up to 7 devices internally.

That's SCSI.

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I don't see why you couldn't have more than one slave, but I haven't seen it done.

Because IDE only does 2 drives per channel.