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because i don't know shit about 'puter guts:
Q: what happens when you have more drives than you have working ATA/IDE ports? is there any way to connect more than two devices to one port? i have 2 hard drives (one 8Gb for XP, one 80Gb for various documents and programs), and a DVD Rom, but only one of the socket thingies seems to work... at least, i think that's the case... when my pal Travis sent me his old (but still pretty bad-ass) gaming rig, i could never get it to recognize the DVD drive, after i had taken it off the ribbon it was on in favor of running the 2 hard drives on the same ribbon [definitely correct jumper settings be damned].
hey, shut up - i can still out-CSS you AND your cousin!
p.s., this may be of some interest, should you ever find yourself needing to play musical drives while trying desperately to get your PC to boot up after having suffered a sasser-like defeat at the foul hands of iomdisk.sys (and/or sasser itself, who knows?): http://hardwarehell.com/jumpers.shtml
Q: what happens when you have more drives than you have working ATA/IDE ports? is there any way to connect more than two devices to one port? i have 2 hard drives (one 8Gb for XP, one 80Gb for various documents and programs), and a DVD Rom, but only one of the socket thingies seems to work... at least, i think that's the case... when my pal Travis sent me his old (but still pretty bad-ass) gaming rig, i could never get it to recognize the DVD drive, after i had taken it off the ribbon it was on in favor of running the 2 hard drives on the same ribbon [definitely correct jumper settings be damned].
hey, shut up - i can still out-CSS you AND your cousin!
p.s., this may be of some interest, should you ever find yourself needing to play musical drives while trying desperately to get your PC to boot up after having suffered a sasser-like defeat at the foul hands of iomdisk.sys (and/or sasser itself, who knows?): http://hardwarehell.com/jumpers.shtml
