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**HAL9000** · 07-14-2000, 07:17 PM

You mentioned about running the 4 drives on one IDE cable. While I haven't tried 4, I did notice something interesting one day and have forgotten about it so haven't had a chance to persue it. It was at work when I was going to transfer some data to a couple of new drives with ghost. The version of ghost I was using had problems with drives 4.3Gb and larger, so I was doing some experimenting. I had two Quantum 4.3Gb hard drives. They were both on the secondary port, I cannot remember how they were jumpered. It might have been one as master, the other in the reserved position, or it may have been both in the reserved position. Anyway, to make a long story short, when I went into the BIOS to detect the drives, the secondary channel came up a single 8.6Gb drive on the master, and nothing on the slave. Unfortunately, I never had a chance to experiment with it more in depth that day, but now that you jogged my memory a bit Toaster... I gotta check that out again and load an OS and do a little benchmarking to see what happens.

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07-14-2000, 07:17 PM	#8
HAL9000 Red-eyed Moderator Staff Premium Member Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Posts: 17,575	You mentioned about running the 4 drives on one IDE cable. While I haven't tried 4, I did notice something interesting one day and have forgotten about it so haven't had a chance to persue it. It was at work when I was going to transfer some data to a couple of new drives with ghost. The version of ghost I was using had problems with drives 4.3Gb and larger, so I was doing some experimenting. I had two Quantum 4.3Gb hard drives. They were both on the secondary port, I cannot remember how they were jumpered. It might have been one as master, the other in the reserved position, or it may have been both in the reserved position. Anyway, to make a long story short, when I went into the BIOS to detect the drives, the secondary channel came up a single 8.6Gb drive on the master, and nothing on the slave. Unfortunately, I never had a chance to experiment with it more in depth that day, but now that you jogged my memory a bit Toaster... I gotta check that out again and load an OS and do a little benchmarking to see what happens. ------------------ If it ain't broke, you're not pushing hard enough!