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Old 09-22-2003, 03:52 AM   #16
mike breck
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Glad to help. Thanks to LJ for correctly putting his finger on the problem - I just filled in the gaps.

With all those channels, you can afford to put your HD on channel 0 and DVD on channel 1.

Channels 2 & 3 suggest that your mobo has two extra IDE/ATA channels "or" two onboard RAID channels.

If they are RAID channels and you are not going to be using RAID (which I don't think you will - it's not for beginners or the faint-hearted), then you can disable RAID in the BIOS.

Many mobos allow you to use RAID channels as ordinary ATA/IDE channels - which means you can put more HDs or ATAPI devices on them.

But check what your mobo manual says about it.

HTH
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