On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Jud wrote: J>But before you run out and buy a new card - do you have room for J>another drive on your current cable(s), or ? If so, you might try hooking J>up the new drive on the cable to see if it works, and only springing for J>the new card if it doesn't. Or you might think about buying a cable with J>additional connectors. Either way would be cheaper than a controller J>card (though of course an Ultra ATA 133 controller card is a nice thing J>to have:).
I already have the Promise ATA133 card. It came bundled with an 80 GB ID drive which I bought for one of my other systems; I didn't have a use for it at the time, so I stuck it in my miscellaneous hardware drawer. I generally prefer to only run ONE hard drive per IDE chain. I find that it takes a significant performance hit when you're simultaneously accessing one drive that is master, and another that is slave, on the same controller. -- Donald Burr of Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! WWW: http://www.borg-cube.com/ ICQ #16997506 | http://www.freebsd.org/ P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 \----------------------------- Phone: (805)563-0672 Present Day... Present Time! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
