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I have a fairly big case, about 18" high. drive bays go right up to
the top of it. I can only reach the lowest bay though, because the
distance
diagonally from the IDE connector on my mobo to the bays is > 18"
I have a huge 40-wire IDE cable that reaches, but I want to use a 80
wire cable because 40 wire is old and causes problems.
What is the point of large cases, even larger than my one, when IDE
cables - or 80 wire ones at least - whose standard is 18" can't reach?
I'm going to get a PCI-IDE adaptor, and hopefully the distance between
the IDE socket on that and the bays is < 18 inches.
I have a removable drive bay, thus I can put my 3.5" HDD in a 5.25"
socket, but it's no use if my cables can't reach it.
Off topic- The PCI-IDE adaptor/controller i'm getting is RAID 0,1. Can
the RAID feature be turned on/off on any controller card?
If I use it after getting into my computer via a boot disk, would I
need a reference in autoexec/config or does the BIOS deal with it
completely?
I have a fairly big case, about 18" high. drive bays go right up to
the top of it. I can only reach the lowest bay though, because the
distance
diagonally from the IDE connector on my mobo to the bays is > 18"
I have a huge 40-wire IDE cable that reaches, but I want to use a 80
wire cable because 40 wire is old and causes problems.
What is the point of large cases, even larger than my one, when IDE
cables - or 80 wire ones at least - whose standard is 18" can't reach?
I'm going to get a PCI-IDE adaptor, and hopefully the distance between
the IDE socket on that and the bays is < 18 inches.
I have a removable drive bay, thus I can put my 3.5" HDD in a 5.25"
socket, but it's no use if my cables can't reach it.
Off topic- The PCI-IDE adaptor/controller i'm getting is RAID 0,1. Can
the RAID feature be turned on/off on any controller card?
If I use it after getting into my computer via a boot disk, would I
need a reference in autoexec/config or does the BIOS deal with it
completely?