IDE based PC

[nathanbarlow]

Hi

I'm modifying an old setup. My question is can I use the ide cable and molex power which is plugged into my floppy drive with a harddrive? No need for floppy drive due to USB and internet. Same for cd-drive.

Other query is how many harddrives a Abit BE7 (raid version) can support, as I can't find this info online

Cheers.

 

[mosox]

You should use the Ultra DMA (80-Conductor) IDE/ATA Cable.

You can put up to 4 IDE devices, two on each port.

http://www.kids-online.net/learn/click/details/idecab.gif

Set the jumpers - the device at the end should be on master, the one in the middle on slave. Usually the jumpers go like this:

http://premium1.uploadit.org/soundx98//jumpers.gif

 

[fastx21]

Hi

I'm modifying an old setup. My question is can I use the ide cable and molex power which is plugged into my floppy drive with a harddrive? No need for floppy drive due to USB and internet. Same for cd-drive.

Other query is how many harddrives a Abit BE7 (raid version) can support, as I can't find this info online

Cheers.

Floppy drivers use a different ribbon cable and the smaller molex connectors. So no you can't reuse those. And usually IDE mobos have 2 ide slots. So you can use 4.
Master-slave IDE0 and master-slave ide1.

Can you use more?... I don't know I never bothered, I suppose you can buy some ide controller.

 

[nathanbarlow]

Best answer selected by nathanbarlow.

 

[nathanbarlow]

thanks Fastx21.

So there's no point taking the floppy drive out of the comp even though it's never used anymore? i.e i cant replace it with a harddrive?

4 IDE drives sounds enough. Got 2 x 500GB and the original 80GB, plus if I wanted another 40GB (from another old unused box)

cheers