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12-12-2004, 01:19 AM
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How to add a 3rd Hard Drive
You have your primary harddrive that has the OS installed on it.
You have a second hard drive. And you want to add a 3rd hard drive. How do you add the 3rd one when the cable only allows 2? |
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12-12-2004, 01:39 AM
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Put it on another IDE channel. If you have 2 devices on each channel already, you'll need an IDE controller card. Like this .
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12-12-2004, 03:29 PM
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Or you can add another disk on IDE 3 if you have a motherboard with IDE 3 and 4. I did the very same thing yesterday to add another 160Gb HDD. IDE 3 and 4 are normally used for RAID, but there is nothing stopping you from adding single HHDs on the channel, or even up to 4 HDDs in both. The disks can be used as master/slave or cs. On my Gigabyte board, I had to enable IDE3/4 in the BIOS, set it up as ATA (rather than RAID) also in the BIOS, and install the Promise drivers that came with the board.
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